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5 December 2006

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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Third session 
Agenda item 2
IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251
OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”
3/…	Implementation of the GA resolution 60/251 : 
                 Conference facilities and financial support for the HRC : 
 			   Council decision 
The Human Rights Council,

PP 1.  Recalling the General Assembly resolution 60/251 which decided, among others, that the Council shall meet regularly throughout the year and schedule no fewer than three sessions per year, including a main session, for a total duration of no less than ten weeks, and shall be able to hold special sessions, when needed, at the request of a member of the Council with the support of one third of the membership of the Council;

PP 2.  Reaffirming the importance of the promotion of multilingualism within the United Nations and in particular the importance of appropriate interpretation and translation services;

PP 3.  Taking into account its heavy schedule of work and the difficulties encountered in obtaining the necessary conference services particularly during its first institution-building year;

PP 4.  Taking also into account the need to ensure the necessary financial resources in order to implement its decisions, including the holding of Special sessions and the decisions emanating there from; 

OP 1.  Reaffirms the need to ensure the necessary Secretariat support and financial resources for the Council in order to fully discharge its mandate as stipulated in the General Assembly resolution 60/251;

OP 2.  Requests the Secretary-General to report to the 61st General Assembly at the earliest possible date on ways and means to guarantee the provision of:

a) conference services, particularly for the holding of Special sessions, additional meetings during regular sessions and intersessional organizational meetings;
 
b) an adequate funding mechanism to provide timely financing for unforeseen extraordinary expenses arising in the implementation of the decisions of the Council, involving inter alia fact-finding missions and special commissions as well as the necessary support from the Secretariat for the implementation of such decisions.

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