UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/10/15 4 February 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Tenth session Agenda item 7 HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan Report of the Secretary-General* 1. At its seventh session, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 7/30 on human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, in which it requested the Secretary-General to bring the resolution to the attention of all Governments, the competent United Nations organs, the specialized agencies, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations, to disseminate it as widely as possible and to report on the matter to the Council at its tenth session. Pursuant to that request, the Secretary-General, in a note verbale dated 17 December 2008, brought Council resolution 7/30 to the attention of all Governments, including those that are members of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories and of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The resolution was also transmitted to all the specialized agencies, competent regional intergovernmental organizations and international humanitarian organizations. 2. Replies were received from Egypt and South Africa. * Late submission. GE.09-11767 (E) 110309