HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF CHILE'S FOURTH PERIODIC REPORT CORRECTION
Press Release
HR/CT/527/
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF CHILE'S FOURTH PERIODIC REPORT CORRECTION
19990325In Press Release HR/CT/527 of 24 March, the fourth paragraph on page 2 should read as follows:
ALEJANDRO SALINAS, Director of the Division of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, began by responding to the question raised previously on the disappearance in Chile, during the military dictatorship, of Carmelo Soria, a United Nations employee. The initial investigation had not proceeded very far, he said. Later, the facts had been investigated again, and the judicial process had been reactivated. After a long judicial battle, the facts had been brought before the Supreme Court. While Mr. Soria was an official of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), it could not, however, be proved that he was a high official of the United Nations, and, therefore, he was outside of the protection of the Convention that was meant to protect him. Later, the Government had offered the family a series of reparatory measures, including a foundation in his name, with monetary contributions for it in 1996 that had totalled $1 million.
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