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A/RES/66/11 GA

Restoration of the rights of membership of Libya in the Human Rights Council

66
Session
123
Yes
4
No
6
Abstentions
Draft symbol A/66/L.9
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Category ORGANIZATIONAL QUESTIONS
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Sponsors (2)
P5 Positions
Russia ✓ United States ✓ United Kingdom ✓ China ✓ France ✓
UN Document A/RES/66/11 ↗

Vote Recorded Vote — A/66/PV.60 Nov. 18, 2011

— Abstain (6)
✗ No (4)
Absent (60)
✓ Yes (123)
Speeches following this vote (13) may include explanations of vote
The President
Before giving the floor to speakers in explanation of vote after the voting, may I remind delegations that explanations of vote are limited to 10 minutes and should be made by delegations from their seats.
Mr. León González (Cuba)
Cuba abstained in the voting on resolution 66/11, which has just been adopted. My delegation feels obliged to express its firmest rejection of the manner in which this subject has been manipulated within the organs of the United Nations, in particular in light of Security Council resolution 1973 (2011), under which NATO violated international law. For more than six months, NATO unceasingly bombar…
Ms. Medal (Nicaragua)
Nicaragua wishes to explain its vote against resolution 66/11, just adopted by the General Assembly. As a fundamental principle, Nicaragua rejects the language of war between peoples and war as a means to resolve disputes between States. From the outset, Nicaragua has rejected and condemned the foreign aggression against the Libyan people and the violation of their right to full exercise of self…
Mr. Valero Briceño (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
Venezuela voted against resolution 66/11 for the following reasons. First, I wish to recall that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela energetically condemns the exclusion of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from the Human Rights Council. Venezuela opposed that exclusion, which it viewed as part of a manoeuvre by imperial Powers to pave the way to intervene — as subsequently happened — in a sovereign c…
Mr. Errázuriz (Chile)
Chile welcomes the restoration of Libya to the Human Rights Council. We welcome the commitments Libya has assumed to respect its obligations under international human rights norms to promote and protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law and to cooperate with the relevant international human rights mechanisms. We refer in particular to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner f…
Mr. Archondo (Plurinational State of Bolivia)
The delegation of the Plurinational State of Bolivia voted against resolution 66/11 supporting the reinstatement of Libya’s rights of membership in the Human Rights Council. Our position has not changed in any way. Like other delegations that made mention of this, we believe that Security Council resolution 1973 (2011) was manipulated and its objectives radically changed. The aim of the resoluti…
The President
We have heard the last speaker in explanation of vote. I shall now give the floor to those representatives who wish to make statements following the voting.
Mr. Barriga (Liechtenstein)
I would like to speak on behalf of the European Free Trade Association member States Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein to briefly put on record our understanding of the resolution we have just adopted. Paragraph 8 of resolution 60/251, on the establishment of the Human Rights Council, states that the General Assembly may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member of…
Mr. Herczyński (Poland)
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union (EU). The candidate countries Turkey, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro; the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia; as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, align themselves with this statement. On 1 March,…
Mr. DeLaurentis (United States of America)
We welcome Libya back to the Human Rights Council. Muammar Al-Qadhafi’s Libya was the only member of the Council that has ever been suspended for gross and systematic violations of human rights, as called for in resolution 60/251, which created the Council. We commend the new Libyan Government for the strong affirmation that it made in Geneva at the Human Rights Council’s most recent session comm…
Mr. Morrill (Canada)
Canada voted in favour of the important resolution 66/11. The end of the Al-Qadhafi regime has allowed the Libyan people to turn the page on more than 40 years of tyranny and one-man rule. It opens a new chapter in Libya’s history, where the Libyan people can fulfil their aspirations for freedom, democracy and respect for human rights and the rule of law. The new Libya needs to be an inclusive L…
Mr. Ulibarri (Costa Rica)
Costa Rica welcomes the reinstatement of Libya to the Human Rights Council. In doing so, we draw attention to the commitments that Libya has entered into to respect the obligations that derive from international human rights law, in particular its announcement that it will continue to promote and protect the rights of its peoples, democracy and the rule of law and to cooperate with international …
The President
The General Assembly has thus concluded this stage of its consideration of item 120.
Full text of resolution OCR extract — may contain errors
United Nations A/RES/66/11 General Assembly Distr.: General 8 December 2011 Sixty-sixth session Agenda item 120 11-45948 *1145948* Please rec cle ♲ Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 November 2011 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/66/L.9 and Add.1)] 66/11. Restoration of the rights of membership of Libya in the Human Rights Council The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Recalling also its resolution 65/265 of 1 March 2011, in which it decided to suspend the rights of membership of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the Human Rights Council, Recalling further its resolution 66/1 A of 16 September 2011, in which it accepted the credentials of the representatives to the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, including the credentials of the delegation of Libya, Taking note of Human Rights Council resolution 18/9 of 29 September 2011,1 Welcoming the commitments made by Libya to uphold its obligations under international human rights law, to promote and protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and to cooperate with relevant international human rights mechanisms, as well as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Commission of Inquiry established by the Human Rights Council in its resolution S-15/1 of 25 February 2011,2 Decides to restore the rights of membership of Libya in the Human Rights Council. 60th plenary meeting 18 November 2011 _______________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53A and corrigendum (A/66/53/Add.1 and Corr.1), chap. I. 2 Ibid., Supplement No. 53 (A/66/53), chap. I.
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