After a year (2005) of significant commitments, this year (2006) must be a year of visible results, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday, calling on the “Group of 77” developing countries and China to pay particular attention to forging an early agreement on the new Human Rights Council.
– I call on you to redouble your efforts for an early agreement on the new Human Rights Council mandated at the World Summit, he said as the chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China passed from Jamaica to South Africa.
He said the decline in the credibility of the existing Commission on Human Rights was casting a shadow over the entire UN and urged the 132 developing country members of the G77 to act quickly to ensure a seamless transition between the Commission and the Council during the Commission’s final session this March.
– With your initiative, we can ensure that human rights are restored to the prominence accorded to them in the Charter, he said.
A stronger renewed United Nations, while important for all Member States, remains most important to the people of the developing world, he added.
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