Loading ...State secretary for strategy affairs with the Romanian Foreign Affairs (MAE) Bogdan Aurescu will be attending today the high-level meeting of the ongoing 10th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held throughout March 27 in Geneva. The MAE reports that in his speech to the session on behalf of Romania, Aurescu will convey support for the consolidation of an efficient HRC as a mechanism to promote and protect individual rights and freedoms in compliance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rules of the international law in this area.
Romania's commitment in this sense, MAE says, was proved including during the country's chairmanship of the Human Rights Council in 2007-2008, when its membership was the first ever of a European Union member state. On the sideline of the meeting, Aurescu is scheduled to have a meeting with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay. The UN Human Rights Council was established in 2006 as the main international forum devoted to the promotion and defence of human rights in the world.
As part of his visit to Geneva, Aurescu will also meet officials of the secretariats of the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in a Transboundary Context, the Ramsar Convetnion on Wetlands, and the Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision making and access to justice in environmental matters. These are some of the most important international law instruments to which Romania has referred for an adequate solution to the Bystroye Canal issue that opposes it to Ukraine.
Aurescu is expected to reconfirm Romania's commitment to honouring the obligations pledged under the relevant provisions in the international law and relevant international conventions regarding environmental protection.
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