United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/PRST/42/1 Distr.: General 2 October 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 1 Statement by the President PRST 42/1. Reports of the Advisory Committee At the 38th meeting, held on 26 September 2019, the President of the Human Rights Council made the following statement: “The Human Rights Council, recalling its resolutions 5/1 of 18 June 2007 and 16/21 of 25 March 2011, in particular section III of the annexes thereto, including on the functions of the Advisory Committee, takes note of the reports of the Advisory Committee on its twenty-second and twenty-third sessions.1” 1 A/HRC/AC/22/2 and A/HRC/AC/23/2. GE.19-16889(E) 