A/HRC/15/51 7. As stated in the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to section B of Human Rights Council resolution S-12/1, the report of the Mission was transmitted to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on 10 December 2009. 8. In paragraph 1968 (d) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Council should submit the report to the General Assembly with a request that it should be considered. 9. As stated in the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to section B of Human Rights Council resolution S-12/1, the Council recommended that the General Assembly should consider the report of the Mission during the main part of its sixty-fourth session.1 10. In paragraph 1968 (e) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Council should bring the Mission’s recommendations to the attention of relevant United Nations human rights treaty bodies so that they may include review of progress in their implementation, as may be relevant to their mandate and procedures, in their periodic review of compliance by Israel with its human rights obligations. The Mission also recommended that the Council should consider review of progress as part of its universal periodic review process. 11. As stated in the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to section B of Human Rights Council resolution S-12/1, the Mission’s report was transmitted to the treaty bodies that monitor compliance by Israel with the human rights treaties to which it is party2 on 10 December 2009. B. Action by the Security Council 12. In paragraph 1969 of its report, the Mission addressed a total of six recommendations to the Security Council. 13. In paragraph 1969 (a) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Security Council should require the Government of Israel, under Article 40 of the Charter of the United Nations, to: (a) Take all appropriate steps, within a period of three months, to launch appropriate investigations that are independent and in conformity with international standards, into the serious violations of international humanitarian and international human rights law reported by the Mission, and any other serious allegations that might come to its attention; (b) Inform the Security Council, within a further period of three months, of actions taken, or in the process of being taken, by the Government of Israel to inquire into, investigate and prosecute such serious violations. 14. To date, the Security Council has not directed such a request to the Government of Israel. 1 2 4 See General Assembly resolution 64/254 and the report of the Secretary-General on the second follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (A/64/890). The Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee against Torture and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.