Countries at different phases of development, or with different historical traditions and cultural background, understand and deal with human rights in different ways, so the human rights standards of one country cannot be uniformly applied around the world, in the expectation that other countries will act in line with those standards.
處於不同的發展階段，或者有不同歷史傳統及文化背景的國家，對人權有不同的瞭解和措施，因此不能將某些國家的人權標準放諸四海，並且要求其他國家比照處理。」