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E.
Meetings and documentation
20.
The Human Rights Council held 35 fully serviced meetings during its seventeenth
session.
21.
The text of the resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council is
contained in part one of the present report.
F.
Visits
22.
At the 2nd meeting, on 30 May 2011, the Minister for Plantation Industries and
Special Envoy for Human Rights of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Samarasinghe, delivered a
statement to the Human Rights Council.
23
At the 5th meeting, on 31 May 2011, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Bahrain, Abdulla Abdullatif Abdulla, delivered a statement to the Human Rights
Council.
G.
Selection and appointment of mandate holders
24.
At its 35th meeting, on 17 June 2011, the Human Rights Council appointed special
procedures mandate holders in accordance with Council resolution 5/1 (see annex IV).
H.
Adoption of the report on the session
25.
At the 35th meeting, on 17 June 2011, the draft report of the Human Rights Council
(A/HRC/17/L.10) was adopted ad referendum and the Council decided to entrust the
Rapporteur with the finalization of the report.
26.
Also at the same meeting, the representatives of Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia
(Plurinational State of), Egypt, Nigeria (on behalf of the Group of African States) and Sri
Lanka, and of Amnesty International, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (also on
behalf of Action Canada for Population and Development, the International Commission of
Jurists and the National Association of Community Legal Centres) and the International
Service for Human Rights made general comments in connection with the session.
27.
At the same meeting, the President of the Human Rights Council made a closing
statement.
I.
Consideration of and action on draft proposals
Follow-up to the report of the independent international fact finding mission on the
incident of the humanitarian flotilla
28.
At the 34th meeting, on 17 June 2011, the representative of Pakistan (on behalf of
the Organization of the Islamic Conference) introduced draft resolution A/HRC/17/L.1,
sponsored by Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference) and
Palestine (on behalf of the Group of Arab States) and co-sponsored by Somalia.
Subsequently, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Cuba and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic
of) joined the sponsors.
29.
At the same meeting, the representative of Pakistan, on behalf of the Organization of
the Islamic Conference, orally revised the draft resolution.
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