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World rejects US rights report
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FRANCE on Tuesday rejected accusations made by the United States in its annual human rights report published on Monday, which sharply criticized France for "religious intolerance" against cult groups.
The French Inter-Ministerial Mission of the Fight Against Cults, or MILS, said that the report "talked about human rights everywhere in the world except the United States."
The same day Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Escobar dismissed the report on his country's human rights record by the US department as "inappropriate".
"An international organization as the United Nations should be responsible for the issues. No country has the right to give marks for all of the world," said the president, adding that no country can evaluate other country's human rights unilaterally. "I don't know what the United States will think about if the Chilean Government made a report on other countries' human rights, including those of the USA."
A spokesperson of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong on Wednesday denounced the report as "unwarranted charges on the human rights situation in Hong Kong".
Other countries opposed to the report include the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Vietnam, Pakistan and Lebanon.(SD-Agencies)
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