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U.N. urges cooperation with rights panel (AP)
Filed: March 12th 2007: World

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Monday for all nations to cooperate with the Human Rights Council, which began its first session of 2007 after being created a year ago to replace a commission whose critics complained was highly politicized.

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