EU delegation arriving
Thimphu, March 15: A high level European Union delegation is scheduled to arrive here today to discuss bilateral issues and repatriation of exiled Bhutanese.
According to EU sources, the nine-member delegation will also raise the issue of human rights violation continuing in Bhutan for years, further deteriorating in the recent years, the resettlement process of the exiled Bhutanese and on other bilateral issues.
The delegation is being led by Neena Gill, a member of European Parliament, will discuss with Bhutanese government officials and ministers the refugee and other issues. They will come to Nepal on March 21, an EU official in Kathmandu said.
The delegation, according to a Bhutanese refugee leader, is also scheduled to visit the refugee camps in Nepal.
Bhutanese leader Ratan Gazmere, who is also associated with the Association of Human Rights Activists in Bhutan (AHURA), hoped that the EU delegation's visit to Bhutan will ensure that no further human rights violations take place in Bhutan. Bhutan News Service
Derails of Neena Gill
Neena Gill MEP
MEP since : 1999
Born : 1956
Contact Details:
UK
West Midlands Labour European Office
Terry Duffy House
Thomas Street
West Bromwich
B70 6NT
Tel : 0121 569 1921
Fax : 0121 525 0949
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.neenagill.org
Brussels
Tel : 00 322 284 5125
Fax : 00 322 284 9125
Email : [email protected]
Link : Link to Member's interests
Member of the European Parliamentary Labour Party Bureau.
Member of the European Parliament Budget Committee and a substitute member on the Industry, Research and Energy Committee.
The first woman Asian Euro-MP elected in Britain, Neena speaks several Asian languages and Italian.
An expert on housing, Neena has been Chief Executive of two housing associations. She also has an interest in Europe-wide finance, and has advised Government ministers on housing and tackling social exclusion.
She was an external examiner for a university and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Member of the MSF and the AEEU.
Special interests: development and social exclusion.