State Secretary for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu on Tuesday took part in the High-Level Segment for the 10th session of the UN Council for Human Rights, reads a Foreign Ministry release. In a speech delivered on this occasion, Aurescu underlined Romania's firm commitment to observe and promote human rights protection worldwide and support the mandate of the Council, which, according the Romanian side has to become a credible, efficient and viable institution in the field of human rights.
Aurescu reminded, in the context, Romania's contribution, as Council president over 2007-2008, to the process of its institutional construction. Aurescu mentioned the need for the observance of the human rights' universal character, irrespective of their economic, political or social context and highlighted the importance of the Universal Periodical Review (UPR) of the human rights records of all UN Member States, made by the Council, with Romania having undergone this process successfully in 2008.
The Romanian State Secretary for Strategic Affairs had a meeting with Navanethem Pillay, High UN Commissioner for Human Rights. On this occasion, Aurescu reiterated Romania's support for the promotion of human rights at world level and proposed the High Commissioner to pay visit to Romania at a date set jointly, in the context of the annual internal evaluation of the UPR process.
Aurescu also met with secretaries of the environment protection conventions, notified by Romania in the Bastroe file – the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment, the Asrhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
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