UNITED NATIONS A Word.Picture.8 General Assembly Distr. Distr. \* MERGEFORMAT LIMITED Symbol \* MERGEFORMAT A/HRC/3/L.9 5 December 2006 Original: Orig. Lang. \* MERGEFORMAT ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Third session Agenda item 2 IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL” Finland (on behalf of the European Union): amendment to draft decision L.3 Delete OP a) Delete OP d) In OP f) replace in the third line “fifth” with “regular two-week”, delete in the fourth line “and vision” Replace OP h) with the following: “Requests the Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to reconvene for one week at the earliest possible date to consider the report by the Five Experts and to develop recommendations on the modalities to take forward the work on complementary standards.” delete OP i) OP j) add “also” in the fifth line before “on other critical segments” delete OP k) OP l) delete in the third line “and additional”, delete in the fourth line “racial and religious” OP m) replace “retain” with “remain seized with”, delete “on its agenda” ----- A/HRC/3/L.9 page \* MERGEFORMAT 2 A/HRC/3/L…. page \* MERGEFORMAT 3