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Document Type: Draft Decision

Date: 2006 Oct

Session: 2nd Regular Session (2006 Sep)

Agenda Item: Item2: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

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A/HRC/2/L.26 3 October 2006

Original: ENGLISH

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Second session Agenda item 2

IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”

Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Cuba, Ghana, Lesotho, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe*: draft decision

2006/… Rectification of the status of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The Human Rights Council,

Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 1985 establishing the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

Decides to initiate at its third session a process proposing a legal framework to rectify the legal status of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by placing it on par with all other treaty monitoring bodies.

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∗ Non-member States of the Human Rights Council.

GE.06-14435 (E) 041006