The parliamentary Human Rights committee held a meeting on Wednesday attended by U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams and U.N. Development Program (UNDP) officials in Lebanon.Committee Chairman MP Michel Moussa later told reporters that the meeting with the U.N. officials was very important adding that there were many remarks by committee members to the U.N. attendants regarding "selective international justice in the face of all Israeli violations in Lebanon and Palestine."He added that discussions also focused on a national plan for human rights, [a plan] under the auspices of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in cooperation and partnership with the UNDP and Lebanese civil society.Moussa said that 18,000 issues out of 23,000 of the said plan have already been resolved. He hoped that the coming 2009 legislature would follow up on the remaining issues.He elaborated that all resolved plan issues are associated to health, education, resisting torture, Lebanese prisons, missing persons, criminal law and all other related human rights issues.
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