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Article: Politics aside ... human rights. (United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan needs to select a new high commissioner for human rights; problems the new person will face)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1997
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THE United Nations created the post of high commissioner for human rights three years ago, after a grand conference on the issue, in order, it hoped, to give itself more stick in this field. But its General Assembly picked for the job a bland Ecuadorean diplomat, Jose Ayala Lasso, who set out to please rather than make waves. He is now returning, before his term is up, to his old job as his country's foreign minister. Will a livelier hand take up the cause?
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, has to recommend a name to the assembly. He is said to favour a woman. Ireland has suggested its outgoing president, Mary Robinson. Others mentioned include ...