A/HRC/18/49 6. To date, the Human Rights Council has not directed any specific request to the Secretary-General to bring the Mission’s report to the attention of the Security Council under Article 99 of the Charter. 7. In paragraph 1968 (c) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Human Rights Council should formally submit the report to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 8. As stated in the report of the Secretary-General A/HRC/13/55, the report of the Mission was transmitted to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on 10 December 2009. 9. In paragraph 1968 (d) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Human Rights Council should submit the report to the General Assembly with a request that it should be considered. 10. In its resolution S-12/1 B, paragraph 4, the Human Rights Council recommended that the General Assembly should consider the report of the Mission during the main part of its sixty-fourth session.1 In paragraph 8 of its resolution 16/32, the Human Rights Council recommended that the General Assembly reconsider the report of the Mission at its sixtysixth session and urged the Assembly to submit the report to the Security Council for its consideration and appropriate action, including consideration of referral of the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, pursuant to article 13 (b) of the Rome Statute. 11. In paragraph 1968 (e) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Council should bring the Mission’s recommendations to the attention of relevant United Nations human rights treaty bodies so that they might include review of progress in their implementation, as might be relevant to their mandate and procedures, in their periodic review of compliance by Israel with its human rights obligations. The Mission also recommended that the Council should consider review of progress as part of its universal periodic review process. 12. As stated in the report of the Secretary-General A/HRC/13/55, paragraph 12, the Mission’s report was transmitted to the treaty bodies that monitor compliance by Israel with the human rights treaties to which it was party2 on 10 December 2009. B. Action by the Security Council 13. In paragraph 1969 of its report, the Mission addressed a total of six recommendations to the Security Council. 14. In paragraph 1969 (a) of its report, the Mission recommended that the Security Council should require the Government of Israel, under Article 40 of the Charter of the United Nations, to: (a) Take all appropriate steps, within a period of three months, to launch appropriate investigations that are independent and in conformity with international standards, into the serious violations of international humanitarian and international human 1 2 4 The General Assembly did so and adopted its resolution 64/10 of 5 November 2009. The Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Committee against Torture and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.