EUHR Solana meets with Mr Juan Méndez, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide

Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), met today with Juan Méndez, the UN Secretary General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.

The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange views on the prevention of genocide and to further enhance cooperation between the EU and the UN.

Mr Michael Matthiessen, Personal Representative of the SG/HR for Human Rights, also participated in the meeting.

Mr Méndez, a former "Prisoner of Conscience" in Argentina in the seventies, was appointed by the UN Secretary General as his Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on 12 July 2004. His mandate is to collect existing information on serious human rights violations, which might lead to genocide and thus act as an early warning mechanism, making recommendations to the Security Council and liaise with the United Nations system on activities for the prevention of genocide.

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