A/HRC/13/58 35. The United Kingdom made the following proposal, building on the United States proposal: That experts be invited to brief the Ad Hoc Committee on the implementation of national anti-discrimination legislation. The proposal was supported by Argentina, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Denmark, the United States and Canada. 36. The Chairperson opened the 6th meeting, explaining that further consultations were necessary before the programme of work could be adopted. The agreement to continue the discussion of issues put forward in alphabetical order, as recorded in the draft programme of work not yet adopted, was therefore extended. 3. Discrimination based on religion or belief 37. Statements and/or text proposals were made by Pakistan (on behalf of the OIC), Iran (Islamic Republic of), South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the Syrian Arab Republic, Mexico (on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland and Uruguay), Denmark, United States of America, Sweden (on behalf of the EU), Azerbaijan, Norway, Poland, France, Germany, Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group). The following observer made a statement: Becket Fund for Religious Liberty (see A/HRC/13/CRP.1). 38. 10 Pakistan, on behalf of the OIC, made the following proposals: 1. States parties shall prohibit by law the uttering of matters that are grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents to that religion; 2. States parties must enact legal prohibitions on publication of material that negatively stereotypes, insults, or uses offensive language on matters regarded by followers of any religion or belief as sacred or inherent to their dignity as human beings, with the aim of protecting their fundamental human rights; 3. States parties shall prohibit public insults and defamation of religions, public incitement to violence, threats against a person or a grouping of persons on the grounds of their race, colour, language, religion, nationality, or national or ethnic origin; 4. States parties shall provide, within their respective legal and constitutional systems, adequate protection against acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation, and coercion resulting from defamation of religions, and incitement to religious hatred in general, and take all possible measures to promote tolerance and respect for all religions and beliefs; 5. States parties shall penalize public expressions with racist aims, or of an ideology which claims the superiority of, or which deprecates or denigrates, a grouping of persons on the grounds of their race, colour, language, religion, nationality, or national or ethnic origin, and enact legal prohibitions on offences in which religious motives are aggravating factors; 6. States parties shall apply and reinforce existing laws in order to combat and deny impunity for all manifestations and acts of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance against national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and migrants and the stereotypes applied to them, including on the basis of religion or belief. GE.10-10366