ARMENIA NOT ELECTED INTO UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

ArmRadio.am
10.05.2006 12:55

Armenia was not elected into UN Human Rights Council. MEDIAMAX Agency
informs that among the Eastern European States elecetd to the Council
were Azerbaijan (3 years), Czech Republic (1 year), Poland (1 year),
Romania (2 years), Russian Federation (3 years) and Ukraine (2 years).

Other Eastern European states competing for membership were Albania,
Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia.

To remind, in 2001 and 2004 Armenia was elected member of the UN Human
Rights Commission, which wll be replaced by the newly created Council.