A/HRC/8/52 page 98 Centre, Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), Human Rights Watch, Interfaith International, International Commission of Jurists (also on behalf of the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions), International Educational Development, Inc., International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations, Liberation, Society for Threatened Peoples. 177. At the same meeting, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of Bangladesh, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Sri Lanka, the Sudan and Zimbabwe. C. Consideration and action on draft proposals Situation of human rights in Myanmar 178. At the 28th meeting, on 18 June 2008, the representative of Slovenia, on behalf of the European Union, introduced draft resolution A/HRC/8/L.12, sponsored by Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Subsequently, Andorra, Israel, Monaco and the Republic of Korea joined the sponsors. 179. At the same meeting, the representative of Slovenia, on behalf of the European Union, orally revised the draft resolution by modifying the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh preambular paragraphs, deleting the fifth preambular paragraph, and modifying paragraphs 1, 6, 7, 8 and 9. 180. The observer for Myanmar, as the concerned country, made a statement in relation to the draft resolution. 181. At the same meeting, general comments in connection with the adoption of the draft resolution were made by the representatives of China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan (on behalf of States members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that are members of the Council), the Philippines, Sri Lanka and the Russian Federation. 182. The draft resolution, as orally revised, was adopted without a vote (for the text as adopted, see part one, chap. I, resolution 8/14). 183. A statement in explanation of vote after the vote was made by the representative of Japan. 184. At the same meeting, on the same day, general comments in connection with the adoption of the draft resolution were made by the representatives of Thailand and of the Sudan.