A/HRC/42/L.46 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 25 September 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Botswana,* Brunei Darussalam,* Egypt, Russian Federation* and Singapore:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/42/L.37 42/… The question of the death penalty After the sixteenth preambular paragraph, insert a new preambular paragraph reading Affirming that the general comments adopted by the treaty bodies are not legally binding on State parties, and do not constitute binding interpretations of treaties; * State not a member of the Human Rights Council. GE.19-16441(E) 