The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has elected new Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner. Armenpress Armenian News Agency reports that at the winter sitting of the PACE the majority of the parliamentarians backed Latvia's representative Nils Muiznieks. The latter will pass to his duties from April 1, 2012.
The new Human Rights Commissioner was born in 1964. As a Council of Europe expert he participated in the regulation of a number of conflicts. In January 2007 he visited Georgia where he dealt with the settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian conflicts.
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