A/HRC/25/69 session, with the possibility that a solution might be reflected in the conclusions and recommendations of the report of the current session. 69. At its 12th meeting, the Committee also considered new or additional topics as contained in its report on its third session (A/HRC/18/36), or as raised during the intersessional period, pursuant to paragraph 6 of Council resolution 21/30, in which the Council recommended that the Committee, at its fifth session, discuss new topic(s) as contained in its report on the third session or additional topic(s) submitted during the intersessional period. 70. Noting that no suggestions as to topics had been received during the intersessional period or to date, the Chairperson-Rapporteur issued the list of seven topics as contained in the report of the fourth session to meeting participants. The list of topics were as follows: “Xenophobia”; “Advocacy and incitement to racial, ethnic, national and religious hatred”; “Racial and xenophobic acts committed through information and communication technologies”; “Racial, ethnic and religious profiling”; “Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect and prevent against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”; “Racism and sport”; and “Procedural gaps with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”. 71. Noting a consensus, the Chairperson-Rapporteur suggested and it was agreed that the three topics of: “Xenophobia”, “Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect and prevent against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” and “Procedural gaps with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” would be carried forward for further consideration at the sixth session. The Chairperson-Rapporteur then invited comments and a number of different proposals were put forward by delegations. 72. Pakistan, on behalf of OIC, proposed the topic of advocacy and incitement to racial, ethnic, national and religious hatred. Switzerland, on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Mexico and Uruguay, proposed the topic of human rights education, and that of special measures, including affirmative or positive measures, for discussion at the next session. The European Union welcomed the discussion of new topics, noting that those topics should have a global approach and be agreed to by consensus. It stated that the Committee should not overload itself with too many topics for discussion and proposed two topics related to: prevention and awareness-raising, and on the implementation of existing norms and standards. South Africa proposed that the two topics on xenophobia and on national mechanisms required further discussion and indicated that the African Group supported the consideration of the topics of advocacy and incitement to racial ethnic, national and religious hatred, and human rights education. Uruguay supported the proposals suggested by Switzerland on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Japan, Mexico and Uruguay and proposed the topic of multiple forms of discrimination. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Cuba supported consideration of the topic of advocacy and incitement to racial ethnic, national and religious hatred, and human rights education. Brazil supported the proposed topics of human rights education, special measures (including affirmative or positive measures) and multiple discrimination. The United States expressed support for the topic of human rights education and proposed the topic of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. 73. Following further consultations and discussions among delegations, at the 13th meeting on 31 July, the following five topics were agreed upon as topics for discussion at the sixth session: “Xenophobia”; “Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect and prevent against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”; “Procedural gaps with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”; “Special measures, including affirmative or positive measures, strategies or actions, to prevent, combat and eradicate all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related 16