  {"id":181779,"date":"2007-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=181779"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:15:42","slug":"auto-insert-181779","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-181779\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights situation in the OPT &#8211; Resolutions and decisions adopted at first HRC organizational meeting &#8211; HRC draft report to GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>THE ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING OF THE <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL*<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mr. Alejandro Artucio (Uruguay)<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Draft report of the Council<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">______________<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">*<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>The format of the present report should not serve as a precedent for any future organizational meeting of the Council.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"1px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>I.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its organizational meeting<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>A.&nbsp;&nbsp;Resolutions<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>OM\/1\/2.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>follow-up to Human Rights Council resolutions <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/2E8B839873F36F438525721B0054077A.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>S-1\/1<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>&nbsp;and <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/30B122786823CF9F852573050059A3BA.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\"><strong>S-3\/1<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The Human Rights Council<\/i>,<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Recalling<\/i>&nbsp;its resolutions S-1\/1 of 6 July 2006 and S-3\/1 of 15 November 2006,<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span><i>Noting with regret <\/i>that Israel, the occupying Power, has not to date implemented these two resolutions and hindered the dispatching of the urgent fact-finding missions specified therein,<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span><\/i>1.<i><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Calls <\/i>for the implementation of its resolutions S-1\/1 of 6 July 2006 and S-3\/1 of 15 November 2006, including the dispatching of the urgent fact-finding missions;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span><\/i>2.<i><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Requests <\/i>the President of the Human Rights Council and the Âé¶¹APP High Commissioner for Human Rights to report to the Council at the next session to be held in September 2007, 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.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>Organizational meeting 1,<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><i>20 June 2007<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">[Adopted without a vote. See chap. III.]<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>III.&nbsp;&nbsp;OTHER MATTERS<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>B.&nbsp;&nbsp;Consideration and action on draft proposals<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">23.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On 20 June, the Council considered and took action on the draft proposals which had been deferred from the fifth session, pursuant to its decision 5\/102 adopted at the 9th meeting, on 18 June.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">24.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On the same day, the Council decided, without a vote, to refer to its September session the following draft proposals deferred to the fifth session pursuant to Council decision 4\/105 of 30 March 2007:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>A\/HRC\/2\/L.19 entitled &#8220;The use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination&#8221;;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>A\/HRC\/2\/L.30 entitled &#8220;World Programme for Human Rights Education&#8221;;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/32A4A7252BF25811852572AC005992E9.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">A\/HRC\/4\/L.3<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;entitled &#8220;Israeli violations of religious and cultural rights in Occupied East Jerusalem&#8221;.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">25.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>For the text of the decision as adopted, see chapter I, section B, decision <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/CD06DADB1DE2A00785257352005334D2.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">OM\/1\/101<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolutions S-1\/1 and S-3\/1<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">30.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On 20 June 2007, the representative of Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Group of Arab States) introduced draft resolution <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/A1C7EA7819959BBA852572FE0051F709.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">A\/HRC\/5\/L.5<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">, sponsored by Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference) and the Sudan (on behalf of the Group of Arab States). Cuba subsequently joined the sponsors.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">31.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Statements in connection with the draft resolution were made by the observers for Israel and Palestine, as concerned countries, or parties.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">32.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>The draft resolution was adopted without a vote.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">33.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>Statements in explanation of vote after the vote were made by the representatives of Canada and Germany (on behalf of the European Union).<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">34.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>For the text of the draft resolution as adopted, see chapter I, section A, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/BEB6B757959E7FB78525732300665D98.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">resolution OM\/1\/2<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">41.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre; font-size:smaller\">\t<\/span>On 20 June, the President informed the Council that the main sponsors of draft decision <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/B804F4E43D8C5990852572AC005A1268.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">A\/HRC\/4\/L.4<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;entitled &#8220;Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory&#8221; (which had been deferred to the fifth session pursuant to Council resolution 4\/105 of 30 March 2007) had decided to withdraw the draft decision.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-bottom:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">___________<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL* Vice-President and Rapporteur: Mr. Alejandro Artucio (Uruguay)&nbsp; Draft report of the Council ______________ *&nbsp;&nbsp;The format of the present report should not serve as a precedent for any future organizational meeting of the Council. \/&#8230; I. 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