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Conference); Russian Federation; Senegal; South Africa; Saudi Arabia; Switzerland;
Tunisia (on behalf of the Group of Arab States); Uruguay; and Zambia;
(b) Representatives of concerned countries or parties: Israel; Lebanon; Palestine; and
Syrian Arab Republic;
(c) Representatives of observer States of the Council: Australia; Chile; Colombia;
Egypt; Iran (Islamic Republic of); Kuwait; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; New Zealand;
Nicaragua; Norway; Qatar; Sudan; United Arab Emirates; United States of America; and
Yemen; and
(d)
Observers for intergovernmental organizations: League of Arab States.
16.
At the same meeting, the representative of Pakistan moved, under rule 117 of the rules of
procedure of the General Assembly, to close the debate on the item under discussion in order to
begin consideration of draft resolution A/HRC/S-1/L.1. The motion was accepted by the
Council and the President subsequently declared the closure of the debate.
G. Action on draft resolution A/HRC/S-1/L.1
Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
17.
At the 1st meeting, on 5 July 2006, the representative of Pakistan (on behalf of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference) introduced draft resolution A/HRC/S-1/L.1, sponsored
by Algeria, Bahrain, Cuba, Egypt ∗ , Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon*, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan
(on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference), Saudi Arabia, Sudan*, Syrian Arab
Republic*, Tunisia (on behalf of the Group of Arab States), and United Arab Emirates*.
Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea*, Djibouti, Guinea*, Iran
(Islamic Republic of) *, Iraq*, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya*, Mali, Senegal, and Venezuela
(Bolivarian Republic of)* subsequently joined the sponsors.
18.
At the same meeting, the representative of Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference) orally revised the draft resolution by replacing operative paragraph 5 with
the following: “Decides to dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission headed by the Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”.
19.
At the same meeting, the representative of Switzerland orally amended the draft
resolution by proposing the insertion of three new paragraphs following operative paragraph 4 to
read as follows:
“New operative paragraph 4 bis: Urges all Palestinian armed groups to respect the rules
of international humanitarian law;
“New operative paragraph 4 ter: Urges also all Palestinian armed groups to refrain
from violence against the civilian population;
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