28. June 2010 at 00:00

Slovakia gets UN human rights post

SLOVAKIA, represented by Fedor Rosocha, the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organisations in Geneva, was selected as vice-president of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on June 21, the TASR newswire reported.

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SLOVAKIA, represented by Fedor Rosocha, the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organisations in Geneva, was selected as vice-president of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on June 21, the TASR newswire reported.

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The nomination from the Eastern European Group is because of Slovakia’s high level of engagement in the council and because the council recognises that human rights are a priority in Slovakia's foreign policy and that the country has consistently supported human rights protection at the national level, TASR wrote.

Slovakia will hold the post at a time when the UNHRC is at a crossroads. A restructuring of the council is due in 2011 after the first five years of its existence. As the only EU-member country in a five-nation bureau, Slovakia will be thorough in pushing forward its priorities vis-a-vis tackling situations involving human rights around the globe, the ministry said.

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Slovakia has been a UNHRC member since June 2008 after it was supported, in a secret vote, by 135 UN-member countries.

The country’s mandate is due to expire in June 2011.

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