A/HRC/25/69 83. The Ad Hoc Committee agreed at its 14th meeting that: (a) The following five topics would be discussed at the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee: • “Xenophobia”; “Establishment, designation or maintaining of national mechanisms with competences to protect and prevent against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”; “Procedural gaps with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination”; “Special measures, including affirmative or positive measures, strategies or actions, to prevent, combat and eradicate all forms and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”; “Prevention and awarenessraising, including through human rights education and training, in the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”; (b) The Chairperson-Rapporteur would seek additional responses to the existing questionnaire during the intersessional period by recirculating the questionnaire. An updated summary of the responses received would also be issued. 84. Also at that meeting, the report of the fifth session was adopted ad referendum, with the understanding that delegations would forward technical corrections to their interventions, in writing, to the Secretariat by 21 August 2013. In closing the meeting, the Chairperson-Rapporteur noted that meetings would be held with Regional Coordinators during the intersessional period and he invited all participants to consider the topics and how to move forward. He also thanked participants for their statements of appreciation to him, noting that the progress made during the session was a reflection of the respect, tolerance and hard work of delegations during the fifth session. 19

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