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G/SO 218/1 UNITED KINGDOM
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Palais des Nations
CH-1211 GENÈVE 10
3 August 1993
Dear Mr. Ambassador,
I have the honour to refer to Commission on Human Rights resolution 1991/42 entitled "Question of arbitrary detention" (copy attached). By that resolution, the Commission decided to create, for a three-year period, a working group composed of five independent experts, with the task of investigating alleged cases of detention imposed arbitrarily or otherwise inconsistently with the relevant international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or in the relevant international legal instruments accepted by the States concerned. The Commission also decided that the Working Group, in carrying out its mandate, shall seek and receive information from Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and shall receive information from the individuals concerned, their families or their representatives. The same request was reiterated by the Commission in its resolutions 1992/28 and 1993/36.
The Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-seventh session, following consultations with the members of the Commission's Bureau, appointed the following independent experts as members of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Mr. R. Garretón (Chile), Mr. L. Joinet (France), Mr. L. Kama (Senegal), Mr. K. Sibal (India) and Mr. P. Uhl (Czechoslovakia).
At its first session the Working Group elected me A8 Chairman/Rapporteur, and Mr. R. Garretón as Vice-Chairman. At the same session the Group also decided to transmit communications which it deemed admissible, concerning alleged situations of arbitrary detention, to the governments concerned, and to ask then to conduct investigations and inform the Group, within 90 days from the date of transmittal, of the results of such investigations.
His Excellency
Mr. Martin Robert Morland
Ambassador
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom
to the United Nations Office at Geneva
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