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Nils Muižnieks elected Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner
ARMENPRESS
JANUARY 25, 2012
STRASBURG
STRASBURG, JANUARY 25, ARMENPRESS: The Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe has elected new Council of Europe Human Rights
Commissioner. Armenpress Armenian News Agency reports that at the
winter sitting of the PACE the majority of the parliamentarians backed
Latvia's representative Nils Muižnieks. The latter will pass to his
duties from April 1, 2012.
The new Human Rights Commissioner was born in 1964. As a Council
of Europe expert he participated in the regulation of a number of
conflicts. In January 2007 he visited Georgia where he dealt with
the settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian
conflicts.
From: Baghdasarian
ARMENPRESS
JANUARY 25, 2012
STRASBURG
STRASBURG, JANUARY 25, ARMENPRESS: The Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe has elected new Council of Europe Human Rights
Commissioner. Armenpress Armenian News Agency reports that at the
winter sitting of the PACE the majority of the parliamentarians backed
Latvia's representative Nils Muižnieks. The latter will pass to his
duties from April 1, 2012.
The new Human Rights Commissioner was born in 1964. As a Council
of Europe expert he participated in the regulation of a number of
conflicts. In January 2007 he visited Georgia where he dealt with
the settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian
conflicts.
From: Baghdasarian