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Document Type: Amendment Decision

Date: 2007 Dec

Session: 6th Regular Session (2007 Sep)

Agenda Item: Item10: Technical assistance and capacity-building

GE.07-15272 (E) 131207

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A/HRC/6/L.48 13 December 2007

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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Sixth session Agenda item 10

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY-BUILDING

Egypt (on behalf of the African Group): Amendments to draft resolution A/HRC/6/L.40

6/… Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan

1. Delete the fifth, eighth and ninth preambular paragraphs.

2. Replace operative paragraph 1 by:

1. Decides to defer the decision pertaining to the review, rationalization and improvement of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan to the eighth session of the Council in June 2008;

3. After paragraph 1, insert the following new paragraph:

2. Requests the Special Rapporteur to engage in an open and constructive dialogue with the Government of the Sudan in fulfilling her mandate and to cooperate with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the relevant United Nations mechanisms, taking into account the relevant resolutions and reports, inter alia, the final report on the situation of human rights in Darfur prepared by the group of experts (A/HRC/6/19);

4. Renumber the subsequent paragraphs accordingly.

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