A/HRC/42/58 proposed elements. It was clarified that as the Committee worked through the document, all text was open for refinement and amendment until finally adopted by the Committee. 86. The Chair-Rapporteur urged Committee members to assist and convince one another to reach consensus. He argued that all views should be heard and placed on the table so that the Committee could move forward together. He stated that nothing in the document would be agreed until everything was agreed. He encouraged all delegations and regional groups to engage constructively. The Committee continued consideration of the draft document under agenda item 8 during the 11th meeting. 87. At its 12th meeting, the Committee continued consideration of the draft in-session document. An updated text reflecting the discussion at the 11th meeting was circulated to the Committee. 88. The Committee continued to work on the draft in-session document on-screen in the room at its 13th meeting. Copies were distributed in the room and electronically to delegations through their regional coordinators. 89. At its 14th meeting, the Committee continued to work on the text of the draft document. The Chair-Rapporteur invited further views, analysis, additions and proposals and also requested that specific proposals be submitted to the Secretariat in writing. G. General discussion and exchange of views, 15th and 16th meetings 90. At its 15th meeting, the Committee resumed its consideration of the draft text on conclusions and recommendations relating to item 10. The Committee considered the document entitled “Document to facilitate discussion and exchange of views on conclusions and recommendations of the session” which was a text of themes and conclusions of the Committee emanating from the expert presentations and interactive discussions. 91. The Committee worked on the text of the document in the room on screen in followup to the initial draft text which it had started to consider at the 8th meeting. Copies of the text were also distributed in the meeting room. The Chair-Rapporteur invited further input and proposals to the draft document of conclusions and recommendations. 92. At the start of the 16th meeting, the representative of Indonesia requested the floor and made a statement. He noted that his delegation had been closely following the tenth session of the Committee, while bearing in mind the Committee’s mandate in relation to the Convention. The delegation considered the work of the Committee pertinent, according to Human Rights Council resolution 34/36, and that it must be concentrated on the negotiation of an additional or new protocol in criminalizing racist and xenophobic acts which would cover all contemporary forms of discrimination, including any discrimination based on religion or belief such as Islamophobia, and in identifying and analysing the gaps in the Convention. In that regard, the recent attacks in Christchurch were still fresh in the collective memory and his delegation considered it high time that the work of the Committee addressed all contemporary forms of discrimination, including on the grounds of religion and belief, as requested by OIC. 93. The representative of Indonesia noted that it was regrettable and unacceptable that in the work of the Committee, some experts and panellists attempted to deviate from the mandate and divert the work of the Ad Hoc Committee from discussing comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to discussing self-determination, especially under agenda item 6. That was beyond the mandate of the Committee and should therefore not be considered or included in the final report. 94. In the view of the Indonesian delegation, the Committee should instead deliberate and elaborate more on innovative measures such as “special measures, including affirmative or positive measures” as examples to fill the existing gaps in the Convention in combating all forms of contemporary racism, including incitement to racial and religious hatred. Indonesia was in full agreement with the mandate given to the Committee, in which discriminatory behaviours, practices and policies which continued to vindicate hate crimes, 14

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