A/HRC/36/L.37 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 27 September 2017 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-sixth session 11–29 September 2017 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Russian Federation:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/36/L.6 36/… The question of the death penalty The sixteenth preambular paragraph should read Strongly deploring the fact that the use of the death penalty may in some cases lead to violations of the human rights of the persons facing the death penalty and of other affected persons, * State not a member of the Human Rights Council. GE.17-16868(E) 