A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 55 1. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the conference room paper and reaffirms those in the working paper; 2. Decides to appoint Françoise Hampson as Special Rapporteur with the task of preparing a comprehensive study on the legal implications of the disappearance of States and other territories for environmental reasons, including the implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference to the rights of indigenous peoples, based on her expanded working paper and her conference room paper, as well as the comments received and the discussions that took place at the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions of the Sub-Commission and the results of the questionnaire endorsed by the Commission in its decision 2005/112; 3. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit a preliminary report to the Sub-Commission at its fifty-ninth session or to the first session of any future expert advice mechanism, and a progress report and a final report in subsequent years; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the assistance necessary to accomplish this task, including the attendance of herself and the secretary to the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at the workshop on this topic to be organized in the first half of 2007 in the South Pacific; 5. Requests States to provide full and timely replies to the questionnaire authorized by the Commission; 6. Decides that if, for whatever reason, Ms. Hampson’s appointment is not endorsed by the Human Rights Council, to request Ms. Hampson to prepare an expanded working paper on the legal implications of the disappearance of States and other territories for environmental reasons, including the implications for the human rights of their residents, with particular reference to the rights of indigenous peoples, to be submitted to the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at its twenty-fifth session and to the Sub-Commission at its fifty-ninth session or to the first session of any future expert advice mechanism; 7. adoption: Recommends the following draft decision to the Human Rights Council for [For the text, see chap. I, draft decision 8.] 8. Decides to continue consideration of this issue at its fifty-ninth session under the same agenda item or recommends consideration of this issue during the first session of any future expert advice mechanism. 21st meeting 24 August 2006 [Adopted without a vote. See chap. VII.]