GE.11-12769

Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda item 1 Organizational and procedural matters

Decision adopted by the Human Rights Council*

16/118 Postponement of the renewal of the mandate of the independent expert on human rights and international solidarity

At its 48th meeting, on 25 March 2011, the Human Rights Council decided to postpone the renewal of the mandate of the independent expert on human rights and international solidarity to its seventeenth session, and for that reason to extend the mandate of the independent expert until June 2011.

48th meeting 25 March 2011

[Adopted by a recorded vote of 32 to 14, with no abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour: Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Thailand, Uganda, Uruguay, Zambia

Against: Belgium, France, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America]

* The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of

the Council on its sixteenth session (A/HRC/16/2), chap. I.