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Thu 12 Dec 2008Creating French human rights post 'a mistake'
WITH HIS inimitable sense of timing, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner chose the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to say he regretted establishing a ministerial post for human rights.
“I think I was wrong to ask for a ministry of state for human rights. It was a mistake,” Dr Kouchner told Le Parisien newspaper. The remarks were particularly shocking, coming from the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières and proponent of the “right to intervention” in countries that abuse human rights.
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