A/HRC/11/37 IV. Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention A. General debate on agenda item 4 141. At its 11th and 12th meetings, on 8 June 2009, and its 13th meeting, on 9 June 2009, the Council held a general debate on agenda item 4, during which the following made statements: (a) Representatives of States Members of the Council: Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic4 (on behalf of the European Union, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates4 (on behalf of the Group of Arab States), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; (b) Representatives of the following observer States: Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Israel, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Sudan, Sweden, United States of America; (c) Observers for the following non-governmental organizations: Amnesty International, Arab Commission for Human Rights, Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Asian Legal Resource Centre, Association for World Education (also on behalf of the World Union for Progressive Judaism), Baha’i International Community, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Centre Europe Tiers Monde (also on behalf of Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples), Centrist Democratic International, Cercle de recherche sur les droits et les devoirs de la personne humaine, Charitable Institute for Protecting Social Victims, Colombian Commission of Jurists, Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, European Union for Public Relations, Federación de Asociaciones para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, France Libertés: Fondation Danielle Mitterand, Franciscans International (also on behalf of Dominicans for Justice and Peace and Pax Romana), General Federation of Iraqi Women, Hawa Society for Women, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Council of Australia, Human Rights Watch, Interfaith International, International Educational Development, International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, International Humanist and Ethical Union, International Institute for Peace, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (also on behalf of Nord-Sud XXI), Liberation, Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association, MINBYUN – Lawyers for a Democratic Society, Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples (also on behalf of Centre Europe Tiers Monde and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), Nord-Sud XXI, Organization for Defending Victims of Violence, Pax Romana, Society for Threatened Peoples, Society Studies Centre, Union de l’action féminine, Union of Arab Jurists, United Nations Watch, World Muslim Congress. 142. At the 12th meeting, on 8 June 2009, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Japan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Syrian Arab Republic and Zimbabwe. 143. At the same meeting, statements in exercise of a second right of reply were made by the representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan and the Syrian Arab Republic. 80 GE.09-16766