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C.
Officers
9.
The following members of the Bureau of the Human Rights Council for the eleventh
cycle also served as officers for the twenty-seventh special session:
President
Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli (El Salvador)
Vice-Presidents
Alaa Youssef (Egypt)*
Shalva Tsiskarashvili (Georgia)
Valentin Zellweger (Switzerland)
Vice-President
and Rapporteur
D.
Mouayed Saleh (Iraq)
Organization of work
10.
Pursuant to paragraph 124 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, an
open-ended informative consultation was held on 4 December 2017 in preparation for the
twenty-seventh special session.
11.
At its first meeting, on 5 December 2017, the Human Rights Council considered the
organization of its work, including speaking time limits, which would be three minutes for
statements by States Members of the Council and two minutes for statements by observer
States of the Council, observers for non-Member States of the Council and other observers.
The list of speakers would be drawn up in chronological order of registration. States
Members of the Council would be given the floor first, followed by observer States and
observers for United Nations entities, specialized agencies and related organizations,
intergovernmental organizations and other entities, and observers of national human rights
institutions and non-governmental organizations.
12.
The special session was conducted in accordance with the relevant provisions
contained in Human Rights Council resolution 5/1.
E.
Resolution and documentation
13.
The resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh special
session is reproduced in chapter I of the present report.
14.
The list of documents issued for the twenty-seventh special session is contained in
the annex to the present report.
F.
Statements
15.
At the first meeting, on 5 December 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights made a statement.
16.
At the same meeting, the Chair of the Coordination Committee of Special
Procedures of the Human Rights Council, Catalina Devandas Aguilar, made a statement on
behalf of the Coordination Committee and, in the light of the subject of the special session,
* Elected at the organizational session, held on 4 December 2017, to replace Amr Ramadan, whose
term of office had ended.
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