Summary: January 28, 2004: Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the establishment of the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt (Brussels)
The EU wishes to welcome the nomination by the Shura Council of the Parliament of the Arab Republic of Egypt of the Members of the National Council for Human Rights and the appointment of the former Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali, to the Chairmanship of the National Council thus paving the way for the actual implementation of the law deciding to establish such an institution.
The European Union also takes this opportunity to congratulate Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali on his appointment to this important National Council for Human Rights and to wish him every success in his new office.
The Union welcomes the formation of the Council as a concrete demonstration by Egypt of its willingness to promote and protect human rights and is convinced that the independence and the high qualification of its members will contribute to the credibility of Egypt's human rights policy.
The European Union and Egypt have embarked on a comprehensive dialogue, set out in the soon to be ratified Association Agreement, on all issues that are important to both parties. In the spirit of that dialogue the European Union wishes to indicate its readiness to cooperate fully with Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali and his colleagues and to assist, in the most appropriate and effective manner, in promoting the important aims and objectives entrusted to them by the Parliament of the Arab Republic of
Egypt.
The Acceding Countries Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia, the Candidate Countries Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, align themselves
with this declaration.
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