15/L.35 Amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/15/L.3

GE.10-16496

Human Rights Council Fifteenth session Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention

Japan, Norway, Switzerland, United States of America: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/15/L.3

After paragraph 9, insert a new paragraph reading:

10. Decides to renew for a period of one year the mandate of the independent

expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, who shall assume the mandate and

responsibilities set out by the Council in its resolutions 6/34, 6/35, 7/16, 9/17 and 11/10,

requests the independent expert to engage with the newly created human rights forums in

the Sudan as well as the human rights sections of the African Union, the United Nations

Mission in the Sudan and the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur

and to submit a report to the Council for consideration at its eighteenth session, and

requests the Secretary-General to provide the independent expert with all assistance

necessary to discharge the mandate fully.