By IANS
New York : Former career diplomat Dilip Lahiri has been elected to the United Nations Committee for Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Lahiri, 62, has served as India’s ambassador to France, Spain, Peru and Bolivia and has long experience in multilateral diplomacy at the UN, Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Commonwealth.
Eleven candidates were contesting the nine seats on the UN committee. India obtained 152 votes out of the 165 valid votes cast by member states.
US, Russia, China, Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Romania, Tanzania and Colombia are the other countries elected to the committee by the 22nd Meeting of States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination held here.
The convention came into force in 1969 to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and manifestations.