A/HRC/6/22 page 111 Rectification of the legal status of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 136. At the 24th meeting, on 10 December 2007, Mr. Philippe Texier, Chairperson of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, introduced the report of the Committee on the rectification of the legal status of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (A/HRC/6/20). The Council also had before it the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the same subject (A/HRC/6/21). Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 137. At the 25th meeting, on 11 December 2007, Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, in her capacity as Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, presented the report on the fourth session of the Working Group (A/HRC/6/8), held from 16 to 27 July 2007. 138. At the same meeting, the Council held a related debate on the aforementioned reports, during which the following made statements: (a) Representatives of States members of the Council: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cuba, Egypt (also on behalf of the Group of African States), India, Italy, Mexico, Pakistan, Portugal4 (on behalf of the European Union, and candidate countries - Croatia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey; countries of the stabilization and association process and potential candidates - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia; a country of the European Free Trade Association and member of the European Economic Area Norway; as well as Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine), Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, South Africa, Switzerland and Ukraine; (b) Observers for the following States: Algeria, Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Morocco, Spain, Thailand and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of); (c) Observer for United Nations entities, specialized agencies and related organizations: International Labour Office; (d) Observer for a national human rights institution: German Institute for Human Rights (also on behalf of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights of France and the Human Rights Advisory Council of Morocco); (e) Observers for non-governmental organizations: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (also on behalf of Amnesty International and Foodfirst Information and Action Network-FIAN), Colombian Commission of Jurists, Comisión Jurídica para el Autodesarollo de los Pueblos Originarios Andinos, Europe-Third World Centre (also on behalf of Comisión Jurídica para el Autodesarollo de los Pueblos Originarios Andinos, International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), Indian Movement Tupaj Amaru (also on behalf of World Peace Council), International Commission of Jurists and Permanent Assembly for Human Rights.