A/HRC/S-3/2
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Kuwait*, Lebanon*, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya*, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Oman*, Pakistan,
Palestine*, Qatar*, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan*, Syrian Arab Republic*,
Tunisia, United Arab Emirates*, United Republic of Tanzania*, Uzbekistan* and Yemen*.
Afghanistan*, Belarus*, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea*, Iraq*, Mauritania*,
Nigeria and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)* subsequently joined the sponsors.
17.
At the same meeting, the representative of Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference and the Group of Arab States) orally revised the draft resolution as follows:
− He replaced preambular paragraph 4 to read as follows: “Taking note of the sense of
shock expressed by the Secretary-General on the Israeli military operations carried
out in Beit Hanoun on 8 November 2006”;
− He replaced in preambular paragraph 5 the word “targeting” with the word “wilful
killing”;
− He deleted in operative paragraphs 1 and 2 the words “targeting and”;
− He inserted a new operative paragraph 5 bis, after operative paragraph 5, to read as
follows: “Urges all concerned parties to respect the rules of international
humanitarian law, to refrain from violence against the civilian population and to treat
under all circumstances all detained combatants and civilians in accordance with the
Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949”;
− He replaced operative paragraph 6 to read as follows: “Decides to dispatch urgently a
high-level fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights
Council, to travel to Beit Hanoun to, inter alia: (a) assess the situation of victims;
(b) address the needs of survivors; and (c) make recommendations on ways and
means to protect Palestinian civilians against any further Israeli assaults”;
− He inserted two new operative paragraphs after operative paragraph 6, to read as
follows: “Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights to provide all administrative, technical and
logistical assistance required to enable the fact-finding mission to fulfil its mandate
promptly and efficiently”; and “Requests the fact-finding mission to report to the
Council no later than the middle of December 2006 on progress made towards the
fulfilment of its mandate.”
18.
Statements in connection with the draft resolution, as orally revised, were made by the
representative of Canada and the observers for Israel and Palestine.
19.
In accordance with rule 153 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, the
attention of the Council was drawn to the estimated administrative and programme budget
implications1 of the draft resolution.
1
Annex I contains the estimated administrative and programme budget implications of the Council resolution.
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