A/HRC/S-28/2 II. Organization of work of the twenty-eighth special session 1. Pursuant to paragraph 10 of General Assembly resolution 60/251, and in accordance with rule 6 of the rules of procedure of the Human Rights Council as contained in the annex to Council resolution 5/1, the Council shall hold special sessions, when needed, at the request of a member of the Council with the support of one third of the membership of the Council. 2. On 15 May 2018, the Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates, on behalf of the Group of Arab States, and the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva requested the convening of a special session of the Human Rights Council on 18 May 2018 on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (see A/HRC/S-28/1). 3. The above-mentioned request was supported by 17 States Members of the Human Rights Council, namely, Angola, Burundi, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). The request was also supported by eight observer States of the Council, namely, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kuwait, Maldives, Oman, Tajikistan and Turkey. 4. Subsequently, the request was also supported by the following Member and observer States: Algeria, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, France, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Portugal, Somalia, Spain, the Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, the Syrian Arab Republic, Uruguay, Yemen and Zimbabwe. 5. As more than one third of the membership of the Human Rights Council supported the above-mentioned request, the President of the Council, following consultations with the main sponsors, decided to convene an open-ended informative consultation on the conduct and organization of the special session on 17 May 2018, and the special session on 18 May. A. Opening and duration of the session 6. The Human Rights Council held its twenty-eighth special session at the United Nations Office at Geneva on 18 May 2018. It held two meetings during the session. 7. The twenty-eighth special session was opened by the President of the Human Rights Council. B. Attendance 8. The special session was attended by representatives of States Members of the Human Rights Council, observer States of the Council, observers for non-Member States of the United Nations and other observers, and observers for United Nations entities, specialized agencies and related organizations, intergovernmental organizations and other entities, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations. C. Officers 9. The following members of the Bureau of the Human Rights Council for the twelfth cycle also served as officers for the twenty-eighth special session: President 4 Vojislav Šuc (Slovenia)