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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10018

13 November 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/un
MEPs question objectivity of work of UN Human Rights Council

Brussels, 12/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - The question of the objectivity of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (HRC) was central to a hearing of the sub-committee on human rights of the European Parliament on Tuesday 10 November. In response to MEPs who criticised, amongst other things, what they saw as the political bias of the HRC when dealing with these issues in Palestine and the occupied territories, Alex Van Meeuwen stressed that it was too early to come to any conclusions....

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