50th Meeting - 57th Regular Session of Human Rights…

- ITEM 4: Vote on Draft Resolution A/HRC/57/L.8 and Amendments L.40, L.41, L.42, L.43 - "Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" - Submitted by Canada, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay 

A/HRC/57/L.8, Amendment L.40 - REJECTED ( 5 YES ¦ 21 NO ¦ 20 ABSTENTIONS)

A/HRC/57/L.8, Amendment L.41 - REJECTED ( 11 YES ¦ 22 NO ¦ 13 ABSTENTIONS)

A/HRC/57/L.8, Amendment L.42 - REJECTED ( 6 YES ¦ 22 NO ¦ 18 ABSTENTIONS)

A/HRC/57/L.8, Amendment L.43 - REJECTED ( 8 YES ¦ 21 NO ¦ 18 ABSTENTIONS) 

A/HRC/57/L.8, Oral Amendment - REJECTED ( 6 YES ¦ 23 NO ¦ 18 ABSTENTIONS)

A/HRC/57/L.8 - ADOPTED ( 23 YES ¦ 6 NO ¦ 18 ABSTENTIONS)

SPEAKERS:

• Chile, Ms. Claudia Fuentes Julio (Introduction)
• Argentina, Mr. Carlos Foradori (Introduction)
• Eritrea, Ms. Nadja Micael (Introduction Amendment L.40)
• Cuba, Mr. Juan Antonio Quintanilla (Introduction Amendment L.41)
• Belarus, Ms. Ms.Larysa Belskaya (Introduction Amendment L.42)
• Russian Federation, Ms. Guzal Khusanova (Introduction Amendment L.43)
• Argentina, Mr. Carlos Foradori
• Cuba, Mr. Juan Antonio Quintanilla
• Argentina, Mr. Carlos Foradori
• United States of America, Mr. Theodore Kill
• Paraguay, Mr. Victor Verdun Bitar
• Venezuela (Country concerned), Mr. Alexander Gabriel Yánez Deleuze
• Mr. Benny Soe Jono, Chief of Budget OHCHR           
• Luxembourg, Mr. Marc Bichler
• Paraguay, Mr. Victor Verdun Bitar
• Chile, Ms. Claudia Fuentes Julio (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.41)
• China, Ms. Li Xiaomei (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.41)
• Eritrea, Ms. Nadja Micael (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.41)
• Finland, Ms. Heidi Schroderus-Fox (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.41)
• France, Mr. Jérôme Bonnafont (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.42)
• Paraguay, Mr. Victor Verdun Bitar (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.42)
• Argentina, Mr. Carlos Foradori (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.43)
• United States of America, Ms. Michèle Taylor (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.43)
• Germany, Ms. Katarina Stasch (Explanation of vote before the vote Amendment L.43)
• Argentina, Mr. Carlos Foradori (Explanation of vote before the vote Oral Amendment)
• Belgium (on behalf of the European Union), Mr. Christophe Payot (Explanation of vote before the vote Oral Amendment)
• Georgia, Mr. Irakli Jgenti (Explanation of vote before the vote Oral amendment)
• Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Mr. Lars Tummers (Explanation of vote before the vote Oral Amendment)
• Germany, Ms. Katarina Stasch (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• China, Ms. Li Xiaomei (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• Cuba, Mr. Juan Antonio Quintanilla (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• Eritrea, Mr. Habtom Zerai Ghirmai (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• Honduras, Ms. Marcela Arías Moncada (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• Brazil, Mr. Tovar Da Silva (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• Mr. Omar Zniber, President of the Human Rights Council (Adoption)
• Brazil, Mr. Andre Simas Magalhaes (Explanation of vote after the vote on all ITEMS 4)

SPEAKERS:

• United Arab Emirates, Mr. Jamal Jama Al Musharakh (Introduction)
• Qatar, Ms. Hend Abdalrahman Al-Muftah
• Eritrea, Mr. Habtom Zerai Ghirmai
• Kazakhstan, Mr. Yerlan Alimbayev
• Indonesia, Mr. M. Rudjimin
• Yemen (Country concerned), Mr. Hamid Mohamed Ali Omar
• Belgium (on behalf of the European Union), Mr. Christophe Payot (Explanation of vote before the vote)
• United States of America, Ms. Michèle Taylor
• Mr. Omar Zniber, President of the Human Rights Council (Adoption)

– ITEM 1: Election of Advisory Committee members - Appointment of special procedure mandate holders 

SPEAKER:

• Mr. Omar Zniber, President of the Human Rights Council

– ITEM 1: Adoption of session report

SPEAKERS:

• Mr. Omar Zniber, President of the Human Rights Council
• Mr. Darius Staniulis, Rapporteur

– ITEM 1: General comments by observer States on any of the resolutions and decisions adopted at this session           

SPEAKERS:

• Canada, Ms. Patricia Lyn Mccullagh
• Egypt, Ms. Noran Mohamed Omar Atteya
• Iraq, Mr. Abdul-Karim Hashim Mostafa
• Mexico, Ms. Francisca Méndez Escobar
• Russian Federation, Mr. Illia Barmin
• Sri Lanka, Ms. Himalee Subhashini Arunatilaka
• Iran (Islamic Republic of), Ms. Somayyeh Karimdoost
• Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Ayala
• Switzerland, Mr. Jurg Lauber

– ITEM 1: Concluding remarks by States and other stakeholders including NGOs

SPEAKERS:

• Iraq, Mr. Abdul-Karim Hashim Mostafa
• Russian Federation, Mr. Yaroslav Eremin
• Ukraine, Mr. Oleksandr Kapustin
• Bolivia, Ms. Maira Macdonal Alvarez
• Malaysia, Ms. Nadzirah Osman
• Paraguay, Mr. Victor Verdun Bitar
• Dominican Republic, Ms. Alfonsina Margarita Gonzalez Nicasio
• United Arab Emirates, Mr. Jamal Jama Al Musharakh
• International Service for Human Rights (Joint statement), Ms. Salma El Hosseiny