PRST/15/2 Secretary-General's proposed strategic framework for programme 19, Human rights

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

President’s statement*

PRST 15/2

At the 34th meeting, held on 1 October 2010, the President of the Council, reaffirming full support for the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as contained in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993, issued a statement prepared in consultation with the High Commissioner reading as follows:

“The Human Rights Council

1. Acknowledges the ongoing constructive dialogue between the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, and thanks the High Commissioner, in particular, for her letter dated 3 May 2010 addressed to the President of the Council, asking him to share the Secretary- General's proposed strategic framework for programme 19, Human rights, with the members of the Council and offering to compile and submit to the Committee for Programme and Coordination any comments they might have;

2. Invites the High Commissioner to present the Secretary-General's proposed strategic framework for programme 19, Human rights, to the Council prior to its submission to the Committee for Programme and Coordination, for the purpose of the High Commissioner to compile and submit the views of States and relevant stakeholders for transmission to the Committee for its consideration.”

* The present statement will be contained in the report of the Human Rights Council on its fifteenth

session (A/HRC/15/60), chap. III.