A/HRC/16/2 44. As requested by the Human Rights Council in paragraph 8 of its resolution 12/13, the Council proceeded with the drawing of lots of the staggered terms of membership for the members of the Expert Mechanism. Vital Bambanze was appointed for one year, Anastasia Chukhman and José Carlos Morales Morales for two years and Jannie Lasimbang and Wilton Littlechild for three years. K. Election of members of the Advisory Committee 45. At the 44th meeting, on 23 March 2011, the Human Rights Council elected, pursuant to its resolution 5/1, seven experts to the Advisory Committee. The Council had before it a note by the Secretary-General (A/HRC/16/19 and Add.1) containing nominations of candidates for election, in accordance with Council decision 6/102, and the biographical data of the candidates. The candidates were as follows: Nominating Member State Expert nominated African States Mauritius Dheerujall Baramlall Seetulsingh Nigeria Obiora Chinedu Okafor Asian States Pakistan Ahmer Bilal Soofi Philippines Purificacion Quisumbing Eastern European States Azerbaijan Latif Hüseynov Latin American and Caribbean States Guatemala Anantonia Reyes Prado Western European and other States France Laurence Boisson de Chazournes 46. The number of candidates for each regional group corresponded to the number of seats to be filled. The practice of holding a secret ballot pursuant to paragraph 70 of Council resolution 5/1 was dispensed with and Dheerujall Baramlall Seetulsingh, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Purificacion Quisumbing, Latif Hüseynov, Anantonia Reyes Prado and Laurence Boisson de Chazournes were elected as members of the Advisory Committee by consensus. L. Adoption of the report of the session 47. At the 48th meeting, on 25 March 2011, the Rapporteur and Vice-President of the Human Rights Council made a statement in connection with the draft report of the Council. 48. At the same meeting, the draft report was adopted ad referendum and the Council decided to entrust the Rapporteur with the finalization of the report. 112 GE.11-17059