BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/05/2007

Belarus fails to win seat on UN rights body

Belarus failed on Thursday inits effort to win a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council after Western nations backed a rival campaign by Bosnia. After two rounds of voting by the U.N. General Assembly, two vacant Eastern European seats on the 47-nation council, the world body's principal rights watchdog, went to Slovenia and Bosnia, both former Yugoslav republics. The result was a victory for Western countries that had persuaded Bosnia to seek a seat at the last minute, in hopes of shutting out ex-Soviet Belarus, which otherwise would have had an uncontested ride into the council along with Slovenia.

Source:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,,12215_cid_2541934,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf