Zagros Human Rights Centre instead of “Permanent Mission of ???” on Item IV
Okay, thank you Madam Chair.
It is in great day of 20 years of anniversary we would like to thank you madam
President, [which] you gave us the opportunity to talk about our request. We know
all about article 4, [1 to 5 of the United Nations human rights organisation] and we
wish it to be realised in all countries with different nationalities as like [it is] in
Switzerland. My appeal, as speaker of Zagros Human Rights Centre who represents a
part of 11 million Kurds in Iran and UN human rights organisation is to urge a request
the Islamic Republic of Iran to allow honourable Dr [Hamad Shayed], Special
Rapporteur of Iran should travel freely to Iran and to visit different places especially
the Kurds area and see what is going on this country. And report his experience
speaking to the representative of all nations and religious minority to United Nations
human rights organisation.
The Kurds request only the democracy and freedom for all minorities in Iran, in this
country. We as Kurds, seek for rights of languages the Kurdish as a modern
language, religious freedom and system of guarantee the rights of all nation groups
in Iran. We request, very peacefully to allow us to practice above-mentioned wishes,
to speak and study in our languages until the university. And to be allowed to
practice our religious minority we want to have rights to grow and govern our area in
the State of Iran.
Madam President, allow me to mention one point of the background of the Kurds in
Iran. After the WWI and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Kurds have
been divided under the four countries: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. This means that
the leader of the world did not pay any attention to the Declaration of president
Woodrow Wilson’s regarding ethnic minority of the Conference of July 21 1923. The
majority of the Kurds in all countries never demanded that they want to have a state
government but they want to have their equal rights with other nation’s groups, in
each country which rule the Kurds. The Kurds want to live in freedom and liberty. The
Kurds in Iran today have never had any kind of rights for the previous territory years
of situation of the all minorities in Iran including the… Thank you. [interrupted by the
moderator]