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294. At the 41st meeting, on 28 March 2008, the representative of Azerbaijan introduced draft resolution A/HRC/7/L.33/Rev.1, sponsored by Azerbaijan and co-sponsored by Bahrain, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Subsequently, Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, Jordan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nigeria, Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Qatar, Serbia, the Syrian Arab Republic and Tunisia joined the sponsors.

295. At the same meeting, the representative of Azerbaijan orally revised the draft resolution by modifying the fourth preambular paragraph and operative paragraphs 12 and 16, deleting operative paragraphs 3 and 13 and renumbering subsequent paragraphs.

296. 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. Inadvertently, the Council was not informed, upon its adoption of the draft resolution, that the resolution as amended would not entail any programme budget implications, since the resolution as amended did not include the appointment of an independent expert (see annex II).

297. The draft resolution, as orally revised, was adopted without a vote (for the text as adopted, see part one, chapter I, resolution 7/28).