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Luis Alfonso de Alba, first Human Rights Council President: "We were creating a genuinely new body"

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The @unitednations Human Rights Council marks its 20th anniversary this year.

Its first President, Luis Alfonso de Alba, returned to Geneva to take part in a commemorative event and told @UNGenevaChannel what the mood was like 20 years ago.

"We were creating a genuinely new body," he said.