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Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis is the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations since January 2024. Previously, he was the Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States. His predecessor was Olof Skoog, who was appointed European Union Special Representative for Human Rights in March 2024.
The EU supports the UN's values of freedom, democracy and human rights. The preamble to the EU's treaty cites the UN Charter's human rights articles and is very active on the UN Human Rights Council. The EU was also instrumental in setting up the system of UN Special Rapporteurs on human rights issues. [7]
Some delegations are responsible for European Union activities and relations with third countries that have not established diplomatic relations with the EU and for special territories of EU member states, including some that are part of the EU itself (OMR). Territories that host office subordinate to such delegation are marked with *.
The European Union on Monday repeated calls for China to stop human rights violations after an EU delegation visited Tibet and also met with Chinese officials. The EU said in a statement it was ...
Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations: 81. Iraq: Abbas Kadhim Obaid Al-Fatlawi: chargé d'affaires ad interim: Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations: 82. Ireland: Fergal Tomas Mythen: 26 August 2022: 83. Israel: Danny Danon: 19 August 2024: Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations: 84. Italy ...
A long-standing request [37] for a representative that would be in charge of enhancing the effectiveness and visibility of EU's human rights policy, based on the Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (officially adopted on 25 June 2012), [38] led to the creation of the post of the Special Representative of the ...
The member states of the European Union are aligned in their foreign policy on many issues. The EU is the world's largest economic union, customs union and donor of humanitarian and development assistance and thus has an extensive network of delegations around the world mainly operating in the framework of External Relations, for which the European Commission is the main decision body.
United Nations Geneva: Lotte Knudsen 2021 Maria Angela Zappia (2011–2014), Walter Stevens [18] (2018–2021) United Nations Vienna: Carl Hallergård 2023 Stephan Klement [19] (2017–2023) Head of Delegation in Vienna OECD & UNESCO Paris: Christina Kokkinakis 2023 Didier Lenoir (2019–2023) Accredited also as EU Ambassador to Andorra and Monaco