UNTAES NOMINATES CHAIRMAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

STRASBOURG, 11 June (Hina) - Henrik Amneus, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the Council of Europe, has been appointed as Chairman of the Human Rights Joint Implementation Committee by UNTAES, reports press office of the Council of Europe. The Committee has the task to establish a human rights monitoring mission, a mechanism for the redress of human rights violations and a human rights education programme, as well as to liaise with the Council of Europe human rights bodies. Henrik Amneus is the second Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe to be appointed in the framework of the implementation of the peace agreements in the region after Gret Haller, Permanent Representative of Switzerland, who was appointed Ombudsperson of the Commission on Human Rights in Bosnia- Herzegovina by the OSCE. (Hina) mr jn 112252 MET jun 96