During this session, the Human Rights Council also extended the mandate of the only independent, internationally-mandated human rights monitor focused on Sudan.
Unless it is extended, its mandate runs out in September 2011.
The oligarchy extended its mandate by beginning to build an empire in Asia.
The former general says that the congress has lost its legitimacy since it extended its mandate.
Meanwhile, the UN extended the mandate of the ICTR to Dec. 31, 2009.
This week, the Security Council extended the mandate of the NATO-led force of 40,000 troops for a year.
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the lacklustre president, has extended his mandate by delaying elections to next year, to nobody's satisfaction.
But the authority's legal experts extended his mandate by a year, saying that presidential and parliamentary elections should be held at the same time.
He appointed prominent members of civil society to his cabinet, embraced previously abandoned rural populations, and extended the mandate of CICIG.
In December, the Japanese prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, extended the mandate of the Self-Defence Forces in Iraq, Japan's largest overseas mission since 1945.
In December the UN extended the mandate of the AU mission in Somalia, to September 2011, and supported an additional increase in the number of troops.
