“I reiterate my support for Indonesia in many international organizations when you compete for an organization seat,” Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said after meeting his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi, in Jakarta on Friday.

Indonesia is seeking a fifth term on the UN Human Right Council, having served a year on the council when it was formed in 2006. It was re-elected for the 2007-2010 period, then again for 2011-2014 and finally for 2015 to 2017. 

Indonesia is running as a representative of the Asia-Pacific region, for which four seats will be available for five candidates. Other countries running for seats on the body are South Korea, the Marshall Islands, Iraq and Japan.

The election of UNHRC members will take place in October this year.

Latvia, meanwhile, was elected a member of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for the 2020-2022 period at the plenary session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Friday.

“I think that our mutual support in UN agencies and bodies has been very successful and we'll continue to support Indonesia in councils like the ECOSOC and also the Human Rights Council, and we'll also count on the support of Indonesia,”

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