A/HRC/4/123 page 27 Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea; Ms. Diana Štrofová, State Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic; Mr. Ricardo Lara Watson, Vice-Minister of Governance and Justice of Honduras; Mr. Don McKinnon, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. 7. At the 1st meeting, on 12 March 2007, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of China and Cuba in connection with the statement of Mr. Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden; and by the representative of India in connection with the statement of Mr. Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. 8. At the 3rd meeting, on 13 March 2007, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representative of Morocco, in connection with the statement of Mr. Abdelaziz Ziari, Minister for Relations with Parliament of Algeria; and the observers for Belarus, in connection with the statement of Mr. Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, and the statement of Mr. Azouz Begag, Minister for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities of France; Colombia, in connection with the statement of Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ecuador; the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in connection with the statement of Mr. Masayoshi Hamada, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan; the Islamic Republic of Iran in connection with the statement of Mr. Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and the statement of Mr. Azouz Begag, Minister for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities of France; the Sudan in connection with the statement of Mr. Maxime Verhagen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and statements made by other guest speakers; and the observer for Turkey in connection with the statement of Mr. Vartan Oskanian, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Armenia. 9. Also at the 3rd meeting, on 13 March 2007, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of Algeria and Japan, and the observer for Sweden. At the same meeting, a second statement in exercise of the right of reply was made by the representatives of Algeria, Japan and Morocco, and the observer for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 10. At the 5th meeting, on 14 March 2007, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representative of Germany (on behalf of the European Union) in connection with the statement of Mr. Abdulhati Al Obeidi, Secretary for European Affairs of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; the observers for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in connection with the statement made by Mr. Cho Jung-pyo, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea; the Sudan in connection with the statements made by Mr. Ian McCartney, Minister for International Human Rights, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Mr. Conor Lenihan, T.D., Minister of State for Development Cooperation and Human Rights of Ireland, and statements made by other guest speakers; the United States of America in connection with the statement of Mr. Felipe Pérez Roque, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba; and Zimbabwe in connection with the statement of Mr. Ian McCartney, Minister for International Human Rights, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.