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(b) Requested the President of the Council and the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights to report to the Council at its fifth session on their efforts for the
implementation of Council resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1 and on the compliance of Israel, the
occupying Power, with these two resolutions.
2.
It may be recalled that, at the first special session of the Council, an oral statement of
programme budget implications was presented to it on its resolution S-1/1, which informed the
Council that, while no provisions had been made in the 2006-2007 programme budget to
dispatch an urgent fact-finding mission to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the related travel
costs, estimated at $27,300 for the mission, will be absorbed within overall resources included in
the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, under section 23, Human rights. With regard
to Council resolution S-3/1, although, owing to time constraints, an estimate of the programme
budget implications of the resolution was not presented to it, the Council was informed at the
time it adopted the resolution that to the extent possible resources required to implement the
decision to dispatch a high-level fact-finding mission to Beit Hanoun and to provide all
administrative, technical and logistical assistance to the mission will be met from resources
approved for the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007, under section 23, Human
rights. Subsequent to the third special session of the Council, it was estimated that $130,500 will
be required to implement Council resolution S-3/1. The Secretary-General in his report on the
revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Council (A/61/530
and Add.1) informed the General Assembly at the main part of its sixty-first session of the
aforementioned budgetary requirements.
3.
This statement is submitted to inform the Council that the resources required to
implement its resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1, estimated at $27,300 and $130,500, respectively,
remain unchanged. At this time, the Secretary-General maintains his prior position, as reported
to the General Assembly at the main part of its sixty-first session, that to the extent possible, the
requirements will be met from resources approved by the General Assembly under section 23,
Human rights, of the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007.
6/20. Regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights
1.
Under the terms of paragraph 2 of resolution 6/20, the Human Rights Council
requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, in 2008, a
workshop for an exchange of views on good practices, added value and challenges for such
regional arrangements, with the participation of representatives of the relevant regional and
subregional arrangements from different regions, experts as well as all interested United Nations
Member States, observers, national human rights institutions and representatives of
non-governmental organizations.
2.
It is estimated that, pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Council, the total full
costs for: (a) conference services to convene a workshop in 2008; (b) travel to the workshop and
daily subsistence allowances of 10 representatives of regional arrangements, two experts
representing treaty bodies and special procedures and one representative of the Council; and (c) a
consultant to assist with organization and conduct of the workshop and preparation of the report
to the Council, will be in the amount of $135,200 for the proposed programme budget for the
biennium 2008-2009 as follows:
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