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C. Consideration and action on draft proposals

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130. At the 39th meeting, on 27 March 2008, the representative of Cuba introduced draft resolution A/HRC/7/L.8/Rev.1 sponsored by Cuba and co-sponsored by Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ecuador, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, the Syrian Arab Republic, Uruguay and Zimbabwe. Subsequently, China, Mozambique and the Russian Federation joined the sponsors.

131. At the same meeting, the President informed the Council that Egypt had withdrawn its amendment (A/HRC/7/L.40) to the draft resolution.

132. At the same meeting, the representative of Cuba orally revised the draft resolution by modifying operative paragraph 1.

133. Statements in connection with the draft resolution were made by the representative of Sri Lanka.

134. Statements in explanation of vote before the vote were made by the representatives of Canada, Slovenia (on behalf of States members of the European Union that are members of the Council) and Switzerland.

135. At the request of the representative of Slovenia (on behalf of States members of the European Union that are members of the Council), a recorded vote was taken on the draft resolution. The draft resolution, as orally revised, was adopted, by 34 votes to 10, with 3 abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour: Angola, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Zambia;

Against: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

Abstaining: Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland.

136. A statement in explanation of vote after the vote was made by the Republic of Korea.

137. At the 43rd meeting, on 1 April, a general comment was made by the representative of Algeria in connection with the adoption of the resolution (for the text as adopted, see part one, chapter I, resolution 7/2).