SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — A top Egyptian diplomat said Monday that Egyptian police were tracking participants in this year’s U. N. climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh as “ridiculous. “
The United Nations said Sunday it is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police officers who were part of the international body’s security force at the site. Germany raised concerns after participants in the country’s events were photographed and filmed.
But Wael Aboulmagd, a senior diplomat who heads the Egyptian delegation, said he had won direct court cases from Germany.
“I have noticed reports in the media,” he told reporters. “They are vague, imprecise, inaccurate. “
“It’s ridiculous because it’s an open event,” Abulmagd said, referring to a panel last week in the German pavilion at which the sister of jailed Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah spoke. an open event?”
He advised the raised factor to divert attention from the substantive issues discussed in the meteorological talks.
“We’ve had enough of those intentional distractions from weather issues, the overemphasis on baseless allegations,” Abouldmagd said.
The United Nations showed that some of the security officials working on the component of the site designated as UN territory are from the host country, Egypt, bringing up “the scale and complexity of security at a large-scale event” like COP27.
He said U. N. security “has been informed of allegations of violations of the Code of Conduct and is investigating those reports. “
Egypt’s foreign summit shone a highlight in its human rights record.
The government has engaged in a widespread crackdown on dissent in recent years, detaining some 60,000 people, many of them prosecuted, according to a 2019 Human Rights Watch tally.
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