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D. General debate on agenda item 4

326. At the 23rd and 24th meetings, on 13 and 14 March 2008, the Council held a general debate on item 4, during which the following made statements:

(a) Representatives of States members of the Council: Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia (on behalf of the European Union, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Ukraine), Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

(b) Observers for the following States: Australia, Belgium, Iceland, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ireland, New Zealand;

(c) Observers for the following non-governmental organizations: Action contre la faim, Arab Lawyers Union, Asian Legal Resource Centre (also on behalf of Lawyers Watch Canada), Baha’i International Community, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Bischofliches Hilfswerk Misereor, B’nai B’rith International (also on behalf of the Coordination Board of Jewish Organization), Centrist Democratic International, Colombian Commission of Jurists, Espace Afrique International, Europe-Third World Centre (also on behalf of France Libertés: Fondation Danielle Mitterand, the International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom), Franciscans International (also on behalf of Pax Romana), Human Rights Watch, Interfaith International, International Commission of Jurists, International Educational Development Inc., International Fellowship for Reconciliation (also on behalf of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Interfaith International (Forum-Asia), International Educational Development Inc., the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development, Liberation, Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, Society for Threatened Peoples International and the Worldview International Foundation), International Human Rights Association of American Minorities, International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations, International Movement ATD Fourth World (also on behalf of Caritas Internationalis, the International Council of Women and the International Federation of Social Workers), International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations, Minority Rights Group International, Union de l’action féminine, Union of Arab Jurists, World Council of Churches, World Muslim Congress.

327. At the 24th meeting, on 14 March 2008, statements in exercise of the right of reply were made by the representatives of China, Colombia, Ethiopia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Japan, Nepal, Slovenia, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.