Agência Brasil

Brasília - Brazil's minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, is participating today (19) in the first meeting of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, in Geneva, Switzerland. The organ, which was created on March 15, 2006, to substitute the Human Rights Commission, is composed of representatives from 47 countries. Each representative is elected for a two-year term.

The daylong meeting is taking place in the Palace of Nations. During the day the Brazilian chancellor will meet with the foreign ministers of France, Philippe Douste-Blazy, and India, Anand Sharma. He will also deliver a speech at the meeting of the Council. At night he will attend a dinner with the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy.

Translation: David Silberstein