A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. LIMITED A/HRC/3/L.8 6 December 2006 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Third session Agenda item 2 IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL” Finland (on behalf of the European Union): amendments to draft resolution A/HRC/3/L.2 Preparations for the Durban Review Conference 1. Amend the title of the resolution to read as follows: “Preparations for the Review Conference on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action”; 2. In the fourth preambular paragraph after the words “programmes of action” replace the phrase “have largely not been achieved” by “have only been partially achieved”; 3. Amend the fifth preambular paragraph to read as follows: Welcoming the unanimous decision of the General Assembly on 28 November 2006 by which the Assembly declared 26 March 2007 as a day for the worldwide commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; 4. In the seventh preambular paragraph after the word “plan” replace the existing text by “for the review conference on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action”; GE.06-15343 (E) 061206