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UNITED

NOTONS

Economic and Social Council

Distr.

GENERAL

E/CN.4/1993/1

19 October 1992

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Forty-ninth session

Original:

ENGLISH

E

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Note by the Secretary-General

Duration and venue of the session

1.

The forty-ninth session of the Commission on Human Rights will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1 February to 12 March 1993. The first meeting will be convened at 11 a.m. on Monday, 1 February 1993.

Provisional agenda

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2. The provisional agenda, prepared in accordance with rule 5 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, reproduced below.

Pre-sessional working groups

3.

It is expected that the forty-ninth session of the Commission will be preceded by meetings of four working groups in connection with the following items:

(a) Item 10 (d): An open-ended working group established to elaborate a draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and to consider the implications of its adoption and the relationship between the draft optional protocol, regional instruments and the Committee against Torture (Commission resolution 1992/43, Economic and Social Council resolution 1992/6) is scheduled to meet from 19 to 30 October 1992;

GE.92-14288 (E)