Human Rights Council
Fourth session

12 March to 30 March 2007
at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

Monday, 12 March 2007

Luis Alfonso de Alba
President of the Human Rights Council

[Spanish] 10 minutes

Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(video message)

[English] 3 minutes

Louise Arbour
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

[English] 7 minutes

Switzerland
Ms Micheline Calmy-Rey
President of the Confederation and Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs

[French] 12 minutes

Gabon
Mr. Paul Mba Abessolo
Vice-Prime Minister

[French] 10 minutes

Germany on behalf of the European Union
Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs

[English] [German] 10 minutes

Luxemburg
Mr. Jean Asselborn
Vice-Prime Minister
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration

[English] [French] 11 minutes

Indonesia
Mr. Hamid Awaluddin
Minister of Law and Human Rights

[English] 14 minutes

Jordan
Mr. Abdelelah Al-Khatib
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] [Arabic] 13 minutes

Tunisia
Mr. Abdelwaheb Abdallah
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] [Arabic] 10 minutes

Philippines
Mr. Alberto G. Romulo
Secretary of Foreign Affairs

[English] 11 minutes

Sri Lanka
Mr. Mahinda Samarasinghe
Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights

[English] 11 minutes

The Netherlands
Mr. Maxime Verhagen
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] 12 minutes

Sweden
Mr. Carl Bildt
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] 9 minutes

Organization of the Islamic Conference
Mr. Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu
Secretary General

[English] 13 minutes

Convening Group of the Community of Democracies
Mr. Alberto G. Romulo
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines

[English] 7 minutes

Cuba

[English] [Spanish] 3 minutes

India

[English] 1 minute

China

[English] [Chinese] 2 minutes

Algeria
Mr. Abdelaziz Ziari
Minister for Relations with Parliament

[French] 10 minutes

Brazil
Mr. Paulo Vannuchi
Minister of State and Special Secretary on Human Rights

[English] [Spanish] 11 minutes

France
Mr. Azouz Begag
Minister for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities

[English] [French] 11 minutes

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Mr. Manouchehr Mottaki
Minister for Foreign Affairs

[English] [Farsi] 15 minutes

Liechtenstein
Ms Rita Kieber-Beck
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] 7 minutes

Nicaragua
Mr. Samuel Santos Lopez
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] [Spanish] 11 minutes

Serbia
Mr. Vuk Draskovic
Minister for Foreign Affairs

[English] 8 minutes

Ecuador
Ms María Fernanda Espinosa
Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] [Spanish] 12 minutes

South Africa
Mr. Johannes Hendrik de Lange
Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development

[English] 13 minutes

Argentina
Mr. Roberto García Moritán
Secretary for Foreign Affairs

[English] [Spanish] 10 minutes

Guatemala
Ms Marta Altolaguirre Larraondo
Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs

[English] [Spanish] 11 minutes

Japan
Mr. Masayoshi Hamada
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] 13 minutes

Pakistan
Mr. Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

[English] 11 minutes

Uruguay
Ms Belela Herrera
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

[English] [Spanish] 8 minutes

Malta
Mr. Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici
Vice-Minister, Ministry for Justice and Home Affairs

[English] 13 minutes

Norway
Mr. Raymond Johansen
Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs

[English] 14 minutes

Spain
Mr. Bernardino Leon Gross
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

[English] [Spanish] 13 minutes