Agenda Item 19: Advisory services and technical co-operation in the field of human rights. "Help Needed to Differentiate Fantasy from Reality" "... you can imagine my concern when I discovered another urgent need for technical assistance to help governments differentiate between reality and fantasy. I am not addressing the general tendency to diplomatic euphemism, or to embroider and/or stretch the truth. I am referring to situations where governments rip the truth to shreds, throw the pieces to the ground and then proceed to dance a jig upon the remains. A compelling example is document E/CN.4/2001/140 in which the Myanmar delegation claims the country is free of human rights abuses. It claims such concrete achievements as the significant economic progress, and the social and cultural uplift and the improvement of the living standards of the people..."