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242. At the 40th meeting, on 27 March 2008, the representatives of Mexico and New Zealand introduced draft resolution A/HRC/7/L.25, sponsored by Mexico and New Zealand and co sponsored by Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus,

the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uruguay and Zambia. Subsequently, Angola, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Iceland, India, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Panama, the Philippines, Serbia, the Republic of Korea and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) joined the sponsors.

243. At the same meeting, the representative of Mexico orally revised the draft resolution by modifying operative paragraph 3.

244. In accordance with rule 153 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, the attention of the Council was drawn to the estimated administrative and programme budget implications of the draft resolution (see annex II).

245. The draft resolution as orally revised was adopted without a vote (for the text as adopted, see part one, chapter I, resolution 7/9).