GILBERTO VERGNE SABOIA OF BRAZIL ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Press Release
BIO/3010*
HR/CN/706
GILBERTO VERGNE SABOIA OF BRAZIL ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
19960319 GENEVA, 19 March (UN Information Service) -- Gilberto Vergne Saboia (Brazil) was elected Chairman of the fifty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights on 18 March.Mr. Saboia, born in 1942, has served his Government since 1968 in a variety of foreign-service and domestic posts. Currently he is Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to that, he was: Chief of Cabinet of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of External Relations (1990-1992); Minister Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Brazilian Mission to the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. (1987-1990); Head of the United Nations Division of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (1985-1986); and Counsellor of the Brazilian Mission in Geneva (1979-1984).
In addition, Mr. Saboia has represented Brazil at several sessions of the Commission on Human Rights, has served on the Executive Committee of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and has attended Conference of the International Labour Office and World Health Organization. He has also been a delegate for Brazil at the United Nations General Assembly and at the 1988 Vienna Conference for the approval of a United Nations Convention against Traffic in Narcotics. He has also served as an expert of the Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (1990-1993).
Mr. Saboia holds a law degree from Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1965). He completed courses at the Instituto Rio Branco (Diplomatic Academy) in 1966, leading to an appointment to the Foreign Service, and completed the higher studies course of the Instituto for senior officials in 1982. He is married and has three children.
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* Press Release BIO/3010, dated 5 March, should have been numbered BIO/3009.