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C.
Officers
9.
At its first organizational meeting of the sixth cycle, on 20 June 2011, the Human
Rights Council elected the following officers, who also served as officers for the nineteenth
special session:
D.
President:
Laura Dupuy Lasserre (Uruguay)
Vice-Presidents:
Christian Strohal (Austria)
Anatole Fabien Nkou (Cameroon)
Andràs Dékàny (Hungary)
Vice-President and Rapporteur:
Gulnara Iskakova (Kyrgyzstan)
Organization of work
10.
Pursuant to paragraph 124 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, an
open-ended informative consultation was held on 31 May 2012 in preparation for the
nineteenth special session.
11.
At its 1st meeting, held on 1 June 2012, the Human Rights Council considered the
organization of its work, including speaking time limits, which would be three minutes for
statements by States Members of the Council and two minutes for statements by observer
States of the Council, observers for non-Member States of the Council and other observers.
The list of speakers would be drawn up in chronological order of registration. States
Members of the Council would be given the floor first, followed by observer States and
observers for United Nations entities, specialized agencies and related organizations,
intergovernmental organizations and other entities, and observers of national human rights
institutions and non-governmental organizations.
12.
The special session was conducted in accordance with the relevant provisions
contained in Human Rights Council resolution 5/1.
E.
Resolution and documentation
13.
The resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council at its nineteenth special
session is reproduced in chapter I of the present report.
14.
The list of documents issued for the nineteenth special session is contained in the
annex to the present report.
F.
Statements
15.
At the 1st meeting, on 1 June 2012, the Officer-in-charge of the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made a statement on behalf of the High
Commissioner.
16.
At the same meeting, the Human Rights Council listened to a pre-recorded statement
read by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof
Heyns, on behalf of all special procedures mandate holders, at the request of the
Coordination Committee of Special Procedures.
17.
Also at the same meeting, the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic made a
statement as the country concerned.
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