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UN Watch rejects Azerbaijan's candidacy
05 May 2006 [10:12] - Today.Az
Azerbaijan's application to UN human Rights Council for membership was not met. The reason was reported to be low-protection of human rights in Azerbaijan.

As APA reports, UN Watch unreservedly endorsed 29 countries, conditionally endorsed 11, and rejected 28 he countries endorsed are: Argentina, Albania, Canada, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, and the United Kingdom.

UN Watch also endorsed the following countries, on condition that they pledged to stop opposing UN human rights resolutions for victims in Darfur and elsewhere: Brazil, Ghana, India, Jordan, Mali, Mauritius, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, and Zambia.

The candidacies rejected by UN Watch are: Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, and Venezuela.

Elections to the new 47-member council will be held May 9. UN Watch today called on democratic states to block repressive regimes from winning control of the UN's new Human Rights Council when its 47 country seats go up for grabs at the General Assembly next Tuesday.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Matin Mirze told that information on rejection of Azerbaijan’s candidacy is false.

UN Officer in Baku Teymur Malikaslanov told that the final decision to be made May 9.

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