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From: Edoardo Bellando <[log in to unmask]>
Date: April 13, 2005 12:46:07 PM EDT
Subject: MEDIA ALERT: DON MACKAY ELECTED CHAIR OF UN COMMITTEE ON
DISABILITY CONVENTION
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United Nations
MEDIA ALERT
DON MACKAY ELECTED CHAIR OF UN COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY CONVENTION
United Nations, 13 April -- Ambassador Don MacKay today was
unanimously elected the new chairperson of the United Nations committee
which is drafting the first-ever convention on the promotion of the
rights
of persons with disabilities. He succeeds Luis Gallegos Chiriboga,
who was
appointed ambassador of Ecuador to Australia.
Mr. MacKay, the Permanent Representative of New Zealand at the United
Nations, has served as coordinator of the informal consultations at the
last two sessions of the Committee -- formally known as Ad Hoc
Committee on
a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the
Protection and
Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
The Committee elected Mr. MacKay at the opening of the first
organizational meeting for its sixth session, which will be held at the
United Nations from 1 to 12 August. Thanking the members of the
Committee, Mr. MacKay said, "Together we can ensure that this extremely
important convention is concluded as quickly as possible, so that
proper
protection and guarantee of rights is provided to persons with
disabilities."
The Committee also elected Jordan, the Czech Republic and Costa Rica
as Committee Vice-Chairs. Consultations are ongoing within the African
Group for the African Vice-Chair. The convention is expected to be
finalized in 2006.
For information, visit http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/ or
contact Edoardo Bellando, UN Department of Public Information, tel.:
(212)
963 8275, [log in to unmask]
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