A/HRC/16/2 Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Vuk Jemerić; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Lene Espersen; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, René Castro Salazar; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cameroon, Henri Eyebe Ayissi; the ViceMinister for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Temir Porras Ponceleón; the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla; the ViceMinister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Doru Costea; the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Albania, Edith Harxhi; the Secretary of State of External Affairs of Angola, Manuel Domingos Augusto; the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Nebojsa Kaludjerovic; and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Arman Kriakossian; (f) At the 6th meeting, on 2 March 2011: the Deputy Prime Minister for Social Issues and Human Rights of Croatia, Slobodan Uzelac; the Minister for Human Rights of Burkina Faso, Salamata Sawadogo; the Minister for Human Rights of Iraq, Mohamed AlSoodani; the Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs of Zimbabwe, Patrick Antony Chinamasa; the Secretary for Defence, Justice and Security of Botswana, Augustine Makgonatsotlhe; the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Asta SkaisgiryteLiauskiene; the Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Grazyna Bernatowicz; the Vice-Minister for Justice of Ecuador, Diego Falconi; the Chairperson of the National Centre for Human Rights of Uzbekistan, Akmal Saidov; the Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Anders Johnsson; the Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union, Julia D. Joiner; the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Kamalesh Sharma; and the Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Janet Lim. 10. At the 3rd meeting, on 28 February 2011, at the request of the representative of Egypt, the Human Rights Council observed a minute of silence to honour the memory of the martyrs of the Egyptian revolution. 11. At the 5th meeting, on 1 March 2011, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Estonia, Japan, Latvia and Morocco. 12. At the same meeting, statements in exercise of a second right of reply were made by the representatives of Azerbaijan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Japan. 13. At the 8th meeting, on 2 March 2011, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of Belarus and Myanmar. Panel on the enjoyment of human rights of people of African descent 14. At the 7th meeting, on 2 March 2011, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 14/16, the Council held a panel discussion on the full enjoyment of the human rights of people of African descent to mark the International Year for People of African Descent. The Council divided the panel discussion into two slots, both held at the 7th meeting, on 2 March 2011. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made introductory remarks for the panel. At the same meeting, the panellists Luis Almagro, Mirjana Najcevska, Pastor Murillo, Epsy Campbell and Florence Simbiri Jaoko made statements. 15. During the ensuing panel discussion for the first slot, at the same meeting, the following made statements and asked the panellists questions: (a) Representatives of States Members of the Human Rights Council: Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Djibouti, Nigeria (on behalf of the Group of African States), Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference), United States of America; (b) 108 Representatives of the following observer States: Colombia, Panama, Peru; GE.11-17059