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(ii)
To recommend that the Ad-Hoc Committee shall convene annual sessions
of 10 working days commencing after its sixth session and report regularly to the
Council on progress in the actual process of the elaboration of complementary
standards;
(iii)
To welcome the recent appointment of the Five Experts on Complementary
Standards by the High Commissioner for Human Rights with the mandate to
produce a base document outlining the substantive gaps in the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;
(iv)
To request the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation
of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to invite the Five Experts to
its fifth session with the view of having a one day preliminary exchange of views
and vision on complementary standards as a provisional measure pending the
completion of their report;
(v)
To recommend that the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective
Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action convene its
sixth session in July 2007 and that this sixth session mark the conclusion and
closure of the Working Group’s debates and deliberations on the question of
complementary standards;
(vi)
To request that the Ad-Hoc Committee convene its first session during
September 2007 and use all the documents presented to it as background material
for commencing its process of elaborating complementary standards, and that one
of its main priorities be to ensure that draft instrument(s) is/are produced for
negotiations;
(vii)
To request that the High Commissioner give visibility and a high profile to the
Anti-Discrimination Unit within her Office and provide it with all the necessary and
additional resources to ensure its effectiveness, particularly in view of the current
challenges of racial and religious discrimination, so that the Unit ensures that the
High Commissioner make a positive contribution and play a leadership role in the
global efforts to combat all the resurgent scourges of racism.”
2.
Should the draft resolution be adopted by the Human Rights Council, it is estimated
that requirements for conference services, in the amount of US$ 607,100 would arise for
the 2006-2007 biennium and US$ 451,800 for the 2008-2009 biennium as follows:
2006-2007
Section 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs
and conference management
Section 28E, Administration, Geneva
Total
United States dollars
594 100
13 000
607 100
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