A/HRC/RES/23/16
2.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to provide the working group with the assistance necessary for it to fulfil its
mandate;
3.
Requests the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the working group to conduct
informal consultations with Governments, regional groups and relevant stakeholders before
the second session of the working group;
4.
Also requests the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the working group to prepare a
new text on the basis of the discussions held during the first session of the working group
and on the basis of the intersessional informal consultations to be held, and to present it
prior to the second session of the working group for consideration and further discussion
thereat;
5.
Invites States, civil society and all relevant stakeholders to contribute actively
and constructively to the work of the working group;
6.
Requests the working group to prepare a report on progress made, and to
submit it to the Human Rights Council as a pre-session document, to be made available in
all official languages of the United Nations, for consideration at its twenty-sixth session.
38th meeting
13 June 2013
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 30 to 9, with 8 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte
d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya,
Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Sierra Leone, Thailand,
Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Against:
Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Spain,
United States of America
Abstaining:
India, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Switzerland]
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