13.
Encourages States to make use of appropriate international and
regional forums to address the issue of prevention of genocide, including, inter alia,
the annual meetings of regional and thematic organizations and their related human
rights machinery, the preparatory process for the Review Conference on the
implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and any
conferences commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights;
14.
Encourages Governments, in cooperation with international and
regional organizations and civil society, while promoting human rights education
activities, to disseminate knowledge of the principles of the Convention, paying
particular attention to the principles of prevention;
15.
Requests the High Commissioner to circulate the reports of the
Secretary-General submitted to the Council in order to obtain the views of States,
relevant United Nations agencies, treaty bodies and special procedures on those
reports, including on possible warning signs that might lead to genocide
(E/CN.4/2006/84), and to report to the Council at its tenth session;
16.
Invites the High Commissioner, as a matter of high priority and in
consultations with States, to elaborate and implement, within existing resources,
appropriate commemorative events to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, having also in mind the
commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights;
17.
Also invites the High Commissioner, as part of the commemorative
events, and as an important contribution to developing preventive strategies, to
organize, within existing resources, a seminar on the prevention of genocide, with the
participation of States, relevant United Nations entities and other international and
regional organizations, civil society, and academic and research bodies, and to publish
a paper on the outcome of the seminar;
18.
Requests the Secretary-General to make available to the Council at its
tenth session an updated report on the efforts of the United Nations system to prevent
genocide and on the activities of the Special Adviser, and invites the Special Adviser
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