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Vice-Chairpersons:
Mr. Miguel Alfonso Martínez (Cuba)
Ms. Chin-Sung Chung (Republic of Korea)
Ms. Antoanella-Iulia Motoc (Romania)
Rapporteur:
Mr. Mohamed Habib Cherif (Tunisia)
8.
At the same meeting, the Chairperson of the fifty-eighth session, Mr. Bossuyt, made a
statement.
E. Adoption of the agenda
9.
At the same meeting, the Sub-Commission had before it a note by the Secretary-General
containing the provisional agenda for the fifty-eighth session (A/HRC/Sub.1/58/1), drawn up on
the basis of the draft provisional agenda considered by the Sub-Commission at its fifty-seventh
session in accordance with paragraph 3 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1894 (LVII).
The annotations to the provisional agenda are contained in document A/HRC/Sub.1/58/1/Add.1.
10.
The Sub-Commission took note of General Assembly resolution 60/251
of 15 March 2006 entitled “Human Rights Council”, pursuant to which all mandates,
mechanisms, functions and responsibilities of the Commission on Human Rights, including the
Sub-Commission, were assumed, as of 19 June 2006, by the Human Rights Council. The
Sub-Commission also took note of Human Rights Council decision 1/102 of 30 June 2006, by
which the Council decided that the final session of the Sub-Commission should be convened
“starting 31 July for a period of up to four weeks, if so decided by the Sub-Commission,
including its pre-sessional and in-sessional working groups”, that “the working groups and the
Social Forum of the Sub-Commission shall be convened to hold their annual sessions in
accordance with current practices”, and that the Sub-Commission “shall give due priority to
preparing: (i) A paper on the Sub-Commission’s record that gives its own vision and
recommendations for future expert advice to the Council, to be submitted to the Council in 2006;
(ii) A detailed list describing the status of all the Sub-Commission’s ongoing studies as well as
an overall review of its activities, to be submitted to the Council in 2006”.
11.
At the same meeting, the Chairperson proposed that a new item 7 entitled
“Implementation of Human Rights Council decision 1/102 of 30 June 2006 and other related
issues” be added to the agenda. The Chairperson also proposed that the present item 7 be moved
to create a new item 8 and that it be modified to read as follows: “Adoption of the report on the
fifty-eighth session to the Human Rights Council”.
12.
At the 2nd meeting, on the same day, statements in connection with the proposed
amendments to the agenda for the fifty-eighth session were made by Mr. Alfonso Martínez,
Mr. Bengoa, Mr. Salama and Ms. Warzazi.
13.
At the same meeting, the agenda, as amended, was adopted without a vote (see annex I).
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