A/HRC/16/73 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 15 December 2010 Original: English Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of paragraph 3 of Human Rights Council resolution 15/1 on follow-up to the report of the independent international fact-finding mission on the incident of the humanitarian flotilla Summary The present report provides information on the status of implementation of paragraph 3 of Human Rights Council resolution 15/1 on follow-up to the report of the independent international fact-finding mission on the incident of the humanitarian flotilla. 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 15/1 of 29 September 2010. In paragraph 3 of that resolution the Council endorsed the conclusions contained in the report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance (A/HRC/15/21). It also called upon all concerned parties to ensure their immediate implementation. In paragraph 5 of the same resolution, the Council also requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the status of the implementation of paragraph 3 of the resolution to the Council at its sixteenth session. 2. On 1 November 2010, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights addressed notes verbales to the Permanent Missions of Israel and Turkey, as well as the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine, requesting information about any steps their respective Governments had taken, envisaged taking, or were otherwise aware of concerning the implementation of paragraph 3 of resolution 15/1. 3. At the time of the preparation of the present report, no reply had been received from the Permanent Mission of Israel or the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine. GE.10-17772