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International Crisis Group has new president

23 July 2009 08:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementyeva â€“ APA. Louise Arbour begins her new post as the International Crisis Groupâ€™s President and CEO, APA reports. From 2004 to 2008, she served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the highest office mandated by the international community to promote and protect human rights. Before this, she was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. â€œIâ€™m delighted to be taking up this new challenge, and I look forward to working with Crisis Groupâ€™s staff around the world as we fulfill the organizationâ€™s mission of conflict prevention and resolutionâ€, says Louise Arbour. She succeeds Gareth Evans, who served with distinction as Crisis Groupâ€™s President and CEO since January 2000. He returns to Australia, from which home base he will be primarily engaged in his role as Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, a joint global initiative of the Australian and Japanese governments. He will also remain on the Board of Crisis Group.