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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2017 Sep

Session: 36th Regular Session (2017 Sep)

Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

GE.17-16868(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-sixth session

11–29 September 2017

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Russian Federation:* amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/36/L.6

36/… The question of the death penalty

The sixteenth preambular paragraph should read

Strongly deploring the fact that the use of the death penalty may in some cases lead

to violations of the human rights of the persons facing the death penalty and of other

affected persons,

* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.