A/HRC/S-27/3 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. 9

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