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E. Reports presented under agenda item 3 and general debate on that item
Reports prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights and by the Secretary-General
115. At the 5th meeting, on 4 June 2008, the Director of the Council and Treaties Division of
OHCHR introduced reports prepared by OHCHR and the Secretary-General under item 3
(A/HRC/8/13, A/HRC/8/11, A/HRC/8/14 and A/HRC/8/9) (see paragraph 78 above).
General debate on agenda item 3
116. At the 6th meeting, on 4 June 2008, the Council held a general debate on the
above-mentioned reports and on item 3, during which the following made statements:
(a) Representatives of States members of the Council: Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia,
Pakistan (also on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference), Russian Federation,
Slovenia (on behalf of the European Union, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,
Georgia, Iceland, Moldova, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
and Ukraine), Switzerland (also on behalf of Denmark, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands
and Sweden);
(b)
Observers for the following States: Morocco, Oman;
(c) Observers for non-governmental organizations: American Association of Jurists,
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia), Centrist Democratic
International, Federación de Asociaciones de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos,
France Libertés: Fondation Danielle Mitterand, Indian Council of South America,
Indian Movement Tupaj Amaru, International Educational Development, Inc., Interfaith
International, International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, International
Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (also on behalf of Anti-Slavery
International, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, the Asian Legal Resource
Centre, Human Rights Watch, the Lutheran World Federation, Minority Rights Group and
Pax Romana), International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development, International PEN,
Liberation, the Mbororo Social and Cultural Development Association, Nord-Sud XXI, the
Society for Threatened Peoples, Union de l’action feminine, Union of Arab Jurists (also on
behalf of the Arab Lawyers Union, the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Indian Council of
South America, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the International
Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the General Arab
Women Federation and the United Towns Agency for North-South Cooperation).
117. At the same meeting, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the
representatives of China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
F. Consideration and action on draft proposals
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
118. At the 27th meeting, on 18 June 2008, the representative of Portugal introduced draft
resolution A/HRC/8/L.2/Rev.1/Corr.1, sponsored by Portugal and co-sponsored by Belgium,
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