A/HRC/18/36 C. Election of the Chairperson-Rapporteur 7. Jerry Matthews Matjila, Permanent Representative of South Africa, was elected Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Ad Hoc Committee by acclamation. Mr. Matjila appealed to delegates to focus on the victims of racism and racial discrimination and work to protect past, present and future victims, strongly encouraging the delegates to use their diversity to find common ground upon which to assist victims. D. Adoption of the agenda 8. At the third meeting of the session, the Ad Hoc Committee adopted the agenda for the resumed third session (A/HRC/AC.1/3/1/Rev.1). E. Organization of work 9. At the third meeting, the Chairperson-Rapporteur introduced the draft programme of work. 10. Some delegations (European Union, Switzerland and the United States of America) requested that information be given on the programme of work and in particular information concerning the topics to be considered during the informal discussions proposed for 13–15 April 2011, noting that the Committee was being asked to adopt an agenda without information as to its exact content. Some also raised questions about the outcome, since the draft programme of work referred to conclusions and recommendations, which would constitute a premature outcome. The European Union also expressed reservations about the fact that full interpretation services would likely be available only for five of the nine days scheduled for the session. 11. Nigeria, on behalf of African Group, Pakistan, on behalf of Organization of the Islamic Conference, and Algeria and Morocco, referring to the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on its second session (A/HRC/13/58, para. 72), noted that in past sessions, the programme of work had been adopted before identification of substantive topics. The programme was mainly for guidance and could be amended at a later point, if required. 12. The Chairperson stated a wish to facilitate the Committee’s work and said that the programme of work was of an indicative nature, to be used in order to start work. The programme of work being proposed could easily be revised, as required. The Chairperson appealed to the Ad Hoc Committee to place its confidence in him and indicated that the reference to “conclusions and recommendations” could be replaced with “way forward”. The Ad Hoc Committee took note of and provisionally adopted the draft programme of work. 13. At its sixth meeting, the Ad Hoc Committee adopted the revised draft programme of work for the resumed third session. At the resumed session, the Committee met over five days and held nine meetings. III. Introduction to and preliminary discussion of the Chairperson’s proposed topics 14. At the end of the third meeting, the Chairperson introduced his proposal of four initial topics for discussion during the session: xenophobia; incitement to racial, ethnic and religious hatred; racial and xenophobic acts committed through information and communication technologies; and racial, ethnic and religious profiling. 4