Subject: UN: HR agreement on tech cooperation
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:29:56 -0400
From: "John M. Miller" <fbp@igc.apc.org>United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
13 August 1998
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOVERNMENT OF INDONESIA SIGN AGREEMENT ON
TECHNICAL COOPERATION
Programme Officer Will Have Access to All of Indonesia; Understanding Reached on
Facilitation of Access to East Timor
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Government of Indonesia
signed this morning in Geneva a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for cooperation in the
promotion and protection of human rights.
Under the agreement, which takes effect today and is valid for two years, the Office
will cooperate with and assist the Government in the implementation of a number of
technical cooperation programmes. The personnel assigned to this project - to be based in
the office of the United Nations Development Programme in Jakarta -- will have access to
all parts of Indonesia in order to be able to assess priority needs. This is understood to
include facilitating access to East Timor.
The technical cooperation to be extended by the Office will cover the areas of the
Indonesian national plan of action for the promotion and protection of human rights and
the strengthening of national capacities; human rights education; the Indonesian National
Human Rights Commission and strategies for the realization of the right to development and
economic, social and cultural rights.
Progress in the implementation of the various programmes envisaged in the agreement,
which is renewable, will be measured through semi-annual reports to be submitted to the
Office and to the Government.
Today's agreement signals the successful conclusion of a process started in 1994, when
the then High Commissioner for Human Rights/Centre for Human Rights and the Indonesian
Government signed a memorandum of intent on cooperation for the development and
implementation of national programmes for the promotion and protection of human rights.
The MOU also comes in the wake of the official launching on 25 June 1998 of Indonesia's
human rights National Plan of Action.
The MOU was signed by High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and Indonesia's
Permanent Representative in Geneva, Ambassador Agus Tarmidzi. The High Commissioner
welcomed the agreement and expressed the hope that it would contribute to addressing the
urgent concerns regarding human rights in Indonesia.
© Copyright 1998 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
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