A/HRC/11/37 together with the views of Malaysia concerning the recommendations and/or conclusions, as well as its voluntary commitments and its replies presented before the adoption of the outcome by the plenary to questions or issues that were not sufficiently addressed during the interactive dialogue in the Working Group (A/HRC/11/37, chap. VI and A/HRC/11/30/Add.1). 19th meeting 12 June 2009 [Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. VI.] 11/117. Issuance of reports of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review in all official languages of the United Nations At its 28th meeting, on 18 June 2009, the Human Rights Council decided to adopt the following text and to submit it to the General Assembly as a matter of urgency, for its implementation: “Bearing in mind General Assembly resolutions 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and 62/219 of 22 December 2007, Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007 and 8/1 of 18 June 2008, Council decision 9/103 of 24 September 2008 and President’s statements 8/1 of 24 September 2008 and 9/2 of 9 April 2008, Stressing that the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council adopted the reports on the review of 32 Member States at its fourth and fifth sessions, Concerned that 13 of the reports adopted by the Working Group at its fourth session were not issued as official documents of the United Nations in the six official languages prior to their consideration and adoption by the Council at its eleventh session, and that the processing and issuance of two of the reports adopted by the Working Group at its fifth session remains delayed, Recalling the importance of multilingualism in the work of the United Nations and the need to issue all reports of the Working Group in all official languages of the Organization, 1. Decides that all the reports adopted by the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review at its fourth and fifth sessions and the additional information submitted by the States under review before the adoption of the outcome by the Council shall be issued as official documents in all official languages of the United Nations prior to the twelfth session of the Council, and requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to that effect; 2. Recalls that the Working Group should endeavour to apply in its reports the word limits established in the annex to President’s statement 9/2, bearing in mind that the Working Group is entrusted with the authority to decide on the adoption of reports that exceptionally exceed those word limits; 3. Decides that all reports adopted by the Working Group shall be issued as official documents in all official languages of the United Nations, in a timely manner before their consideration by the Council, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure the necessary support to that effect.” 28th meeting 18 June 2009 [Adopted without a vote. See part II, chapter VI.] GE.09-16766 59

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