Sommaire: April 27, 2005: UN High Commissioner Louise Arbour on First Official Visit to Brussels (Brussels)
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, will make her first official visit to the European Commission on 28th April 2005.
She will meet the President of the Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, the Vice President of the Commission, Franco Frattini, Commissioner for Freedom, Security and Justice, and Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
Key topics likely to be addressed include UN reform, the international rule of law and advancement of international justice and the recent session of the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Commission will underline that continued support will be extended under the EIDHR (European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights) to the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone and that the EC intends to make a €1 million contribution to the Khmer Rouge
Special Tribunals. The developing relationship between the Commission and the OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) will also be discussed, including the robust level of funding extended through the EIDHR. Last year the EC was the second-highest voluntary donor to the OHCHR and support is expected to be sustained in 2005, with EIDHR projects totaling approximately €4 million.
Javier Solana, European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), will also meet Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Thursday 28 April 2005.
The meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss the results of the 61st session of the Commission on Human Rights, held in Geneva 14 March - 22 April 2005, as well as the reform agenda of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in view of the September Summit.
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