OSCE Chairman-in-Office congratulates new UN Human Rights Commissioner
(Ayhan Evrensel/OSCE)OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, talking to reporters in Vienna, 19 February 2004. (Ayhan Evrensel/OSCE) Photo details
NEW YORK, 25 February 2004 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, today congratulated the Canadian Judge Louise Arbour on her appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
"I am delighted that such a prominent defender of human rights, from an important OSCE participating State, should have been given this great honour," he told the UN General Assembly in New York.
The Chairman-in-Office pledged the full support of the OSCE to the new High Commissioner and invited her to address the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna in the near future.
"I am delighted that such a prominent defender of human rights, from an important OSCE participating State, should have been given this great honour," he told the UN General Assembly in New York.
The Chairman-in-Office pledged the full support of the OSCE to the new High Commissioner and invited her to address the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna in the near future.