A/HRC/42/L.39 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: Limited 25 September 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Egypt, Jordan* and Saudi Arabia: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/42/L.37 42/… The question of the death penalty Before paragraph 1, insert a new paragraph reading 1. Recognizes that the application of a moratorium on the death penalty, abolishing the death penalty or retaining it should be a decision based on domestic debates at the national level; * State not a member of the Human Rights Council. GE.19-16431(E) 