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    ARMENIA'S CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ALSO NOMINATED

    NEW YORK, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenia will also
    participate in the elections of the newly established UN Himan Rights
    Council to be held at the UN headquarters in New York on May 9. 65
    countries will compete for 47 seats in this body, Radio Liberty
    reported. The most intense competition is expected to take place in
    Eastern Europe Group, to which 6 seats have been allocated. According
    to the UN information center, 13 countries are competing for seats in
    the Eastern Europe Group: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia,
    Ukraine, the Baltic states, Albania, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and the
    Czech Republic. The UN General Assembly on March 15 voted by the
    majority of votes in favor of setting up the UN Human Rights
    Council. The 47-member council will regularly study reports on human
    rights defence standards in the UN member states. The council's
    decisions are mandatory. This newly established body will replace the
    Geneva-based UN Commission on Human Right, which consists of 53
    members. "The human rights protection will remain the problem of
    states, while the UN Human Rights Council will suggest mechanisms to
    carry out control, propose new standards, give assessment and respond
    immediately to gross violations of human rights in a country. In fact,
    the council becomes a body of the UN General Assembly," Armenia's
    Resident Representative to the UN Armen Martirosian told Radio
    Liberty. According to him, Armenia has been a member of the UN
    Commission om Human Rights since 2002. In 2004, the country was
    re-elected until 2007. "As far as I know, a decision has already been
    made in Yerevan that Armenia will nominate its candidacy for joining
    the UN Human Rights Council of the first convocation," Armen
    Martirosian said.
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