The Bolivian Foreign Ministry has confirmed the departure from the country of the mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, although it has denied that it is an expulsion, as the opposition party Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) has claimed.
«It clarifies to the public opinion in the face of false versions issued on the alleged expulsion of the technical mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights that this instance has fulfilled the time of stay in the country that had been agreed in advance with the State», reads a statement, dated January 19.
The Comunidad Ciudadana bench denounced the day before that the Bolivian government of President Luis Arce expelled the mission and that the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) has a «black plan» against Human Rights, as reported this Friday by the newspaper ‘El Deber’.
Specifically, the senator of CC, Cecilia Requena, alluded that the departure of the mission, which landed in Bolivia in 2020 after signing a one-year agreement that was extended until December 2022, increases the lack of protection of the population.
«At this moment our lack of protection is enormous because there are no other instances of defense of human rights that have a seat in the country, such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch,» she argued, as reported by ‘Los Tiempos’.
The former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced in 2019 the dispatch of a commission to investigate human rights violations committed in the context of the political crisis.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
