China re-elected to UN Human Rights Council

Source: Xinhua | 05-13-2009 08:22

UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday was re-elected for a three-year term to the 47-member UN Human Rights Council.

The 63rd session of the 83rd Planary meeting of the UN  General Assembly is held at the UN headquarters in New  York, the U.S. May 12, 2009. Eighteen UN members were  elected to the UN Human Rights Council during the meeting  on Tuesday. China won 167 favorable votes from the 191  member states present, winning another three-year term  in the Council from 2009 to 2012. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)

China's re-election victory was contained in the result of the election of 18 members of the UN human rights body at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly.

Following one round of secret ballot on Tuesday morning, China won 167 favorable votes from the 191 member states present, winning another three-year term in the Council from 2009 to 2012.

Since China was elected as an founding member of the Council in 2006, it has made remarkable achievements in the field of human rights and fulfilled the pledges and commitments made during its last campaign for membership of the Council, a spokesman with the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations said.