A/HRC/21/40 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 June 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-first session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Report of the open-ended intergovernmental working group to consider the possibility of elaborating an international regulatory framework on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the activities of private military and security companies Note by the secretariat 1. The secretariat informs the Human Rights Council by the present note that the second session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group to consider the possibility of elaborating an international regulatory framework on the regulation, monitoring and oversight of the activities of private military and security companies has been postponed to 13 to 17 August 2012. 2. Given the change of dates, the working group will submit the report on its second session to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session. GE.12-14096