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Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Third Committee

47/122.

World Conference on Human Rights

Date: 18 December 1992 Adopted without a vote

Meeting: 92

Report: A/47/678/Add.2

The General Assembly,

Mindful of the goal of the United Nations to promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, as set out in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 214/

Recognizing that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are indivisible and interrelated and that the promotion and protection of one category of rights should never exempt or excuse States from the promotion and protection of another,

Recalling its resolutions 45/155 of 18 December 1990, in which it decided, inter alia, to convene at a high level a World Conference on Human Rights in 1993, and 46/116 of 17 December 1991,

Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1991/30 of 5 March 1991, 215/

Convinced that the holding of a world conference on human rights could make a significant contribution to the effectiveness of the actions of the United Nations in the promotion and protection of human rights,

Recognizing the urgency of adopting a draft agenda for the World Conference on Human Rights before the final session of the Preparatory Committee,

1. Takes note with appreciation of the reports of the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference on Human Rights on the work of its second and third sessions; 216/

2. Expresses its satisfaction to Governments, the bodies and organs of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations for their contributions to the preparatory process;

3. Approves the draft rules of procedure for the World Conference on Human Rights, as recommended by the Preparatory Committee at its second and third sessions, with the exception of rule 15 (e);

4. Decides that the distribution of the 29 vice-presidents of the World Conference on Human Rights should be in accordance with the established criteria of the General Assembly based on equitable geographical distribution;

5. Approves the recommendation made by the Preparatory Committee at its third session regarding the participation of non-governmental organizations in regional meetings related to the preparatory process;

6. Also approves the provisional agenda for the World Conference on Human Rights, as annexed to the present resolution, on the understanding that participants can raise issues of interest to them under the appropriate agenda item at the fourth session of the Preparatory Committee and the World Conference on Human Rights for possible inclusion in the final document;

7.

(a)

Decides, in accordance with the decisions adopted by the Preparatory Committee:

(i)

That the Preparatory Committee shall meet for its fourth session at Geneva, for a period of two weeks in April 1993;

(ii)

That the question of the final outcome of the World Conference shall be taken up by the Preparatory Committee at its fourth session, taking into consideration, inter alia, the preparatory work and conclusions of the regional meetings to be held at Tunis, San José and Bangkok;

214/ Resolution 217 A (III).

215/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1991, Supplement No. 2 (E/1991/22),

chap. 11, sect. A.

216/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 24 (A/47/24)

and A/47/24/Add.1.

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