Parliamentary Foreign Secretary Kaori Maruya will travel to Switzerland and Poland from Tuesday to attend a U.N. Commission on Human Rights session in Geneva and hold talks with Polish officials, the ministry said Monday.

Maruya is scheduled to represent Japan at the 57th Session of the UNCHR and give a speech describing Japan's measures in tackling human rights on Wednesday.

She will also hold talks with Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the sidelines of the session, which runs from Monday through April 27 in Geneva, according to the ministry.

Maruya will then travel to Warsaw to exchange views on Japan-Poland relations with Radoslaw Sikorski, a Polish state foreign undersecretary, before moving to Poznan in western Poland and Krakow in the south.

In Poznan, Maruya will tour Adam Mickiewicz University, to which the Japanese government has provided investments and cultural grants, the ministry said. She also plans to visit a Japanese arts center in Krakow.