UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon late Tuesday discussed with Bahey eldin Hassan, Co-founder and Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the human rights situation and political climate in Egypt, the UN press office said in a statement. It said both officials also discussed during a meeting at UN headquarters regional issues of "common interest," and the Secretary-General expressed interest in the work of Arab and Egyptian human rights organizations in promoting and implementing universal principles and standards of human rights.