18/L.34 Amendments to amendments to draft resolution A/HRC/18/L.13 contained in document A/HRC/18/L.33

GE.11-16472

Human Rights Council Eighteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

Cuba: amendments to amendments to draft resolution A/HRC/18/L.13 contained in document A/HRC/18/L.33

1. Paragraph 1

Replace the proposed new paragraph with

Declares that democracy includes respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms, that democracy is a universal value based on the freely expressed will of people to determine their own political, economic, social and cultural systems and their full participation in all aspects of their lives and reaffirms the need for universal adherence to and implementation of the rule of law at both the national and international levels;

2. Paragraph 2

Replace the proposed new paragraph with

Reaffirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in particular the principle that the will of the people, as expressed through periodic and genuine elections, shall be the basis of government authority, as well as the right freely to choose representatives through periodic and genuine elections, which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures;

3. Paragraph 3

Replace the proposed new subparagraph with

To support the strengthening and promoting of democracy, development and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the entire world;