United Nations A/C.3/69/SR.43 General Assembly Distr.: General Sixty-ninth session 19 January 2015 Official Records Original: English Third Committee Summary record of the 43rd meeting Held at Headquarters, New York, on Tuesday, 11 November 2014, at 10 a.m. Chair: Mr. Davis .................................................... (Jamaica) Contents Agenda item 66: Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (continued) (a) Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (continued) Agenda item 67: Right of peoples to self-determination (continued) Agenda item 68: Promotion and protection of human rights (continued) (b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms (continued) (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives (continued) This record is subject to correction. 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Such actions, as well as the erecting of monuments for Agenda item 66: Elimination of racism, racial Nazis, the designation of days commemorating discrimination, xenophobia and related liberation from Nazism as days of mourning and intolerance (continued) attempting to demolish monuments erected in remembrance of those who had fought against Nazism, (a) Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, were not only blasphemous with regard to veterans of xenophobia and related intolerance (continued) the anti-fascist movement, but also played into the (A/C.3/69/L.56 and A/C.3/69/L.57) hands of those who advocated “racial purity” and Draft resolution A/C.3/69/L.56: Combating glorification discrimination on racial or ethnic grounds, not to of Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling mention the poor example they gave to the younger contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, generation. xenophobia and related intolerance 5. Almost seventy years since the defeat of Nazism 1. Mr. Lukiyantsev (Russian Federation), in the Second World War, attempts were still being introducing the draft resolution, said that Bangladesh, made to falsify history. It was unacceptable to attempt India, Niger, Rwanda, Seychelles and Sri Lanka had to review or downplay the assessment of that ideology joined the sponsors. The sponsors would prepare an as set out in the documents of the Nuremberg Trials, updated draft resolution on the basis of the proposals which had clearly and unequivocally condemned the made by delegations. crimes of those who had violated the rights and dignity of persons and denied the principle of equality of 2. It would soon be ten years since the Russian persons regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion or Federation had first introduced the initiative on language. It was States’ shared duty to preserve the combating glorification of Nazism for the memory of those who had given their lives for a future consideration of the General Assembly. However, free from Nazism and fascism. events since the adoption of General Assembly resolution 68/150 on that matter demonstrated that the 6. Ms. Sharma (Secretary of the Committee) said initiative had unfortunately become no less relevant. that Brazil and Myanmar had joined the sponsors. Support for the resolution had increased from year to year, showing that the threat of the problems was being Draft resolution A/C.3/69/L.57: International Convention recognized across the globe. All sponsors of the on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination resolution fully supported the Special Rapporteur on 7. Ms. Frankinet (Belgium), speaking also on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, behalf of Slovenia, introduced the draft resolution. xenophobia and related intolerance. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Turkey and 3. The negative consequences of the global financial Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) had joined the and economic crisis had strengthened the positions of sponsors. The main sponsors had decided to make the right-wing forces, political parties and various kinds of text into a procedural document, and it would extremist movements, which were increasingly drawn henceforth only deal with the four key elements for the to Nazi and neo-Nazi ideology. Attacks on and implementation of the International Convention on the violence towards national, ethnic, linguistic and Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. religious minorities, immigrants and refugees had 8. She welcomed the fact that General Assembly become more frequent. Racist slogans were becoming resolution 68/268 on strengthening and enhancing the an increasingly common part of political platforms and effective functioning of the human rights treaty body parties, while aggressive nationalism was often system had granted the Committee on the Elimination accepted as a permanent feature of so-called of Racial Discrimination a week of additional meeting democratic election campaigns. time to catch up with the backlog of reports. In order 4. The vaccination against Nazism and fascism for the fight against racial discrimination to be clearly needed a boost. Recently in Europe there had effective, the Convention must have political support been attempts to declare those who had collaborated and be implemented in law as widely as possible. In with the fascist movement against the anti-Hitler that regard, the Secretary-General had been invited to 2/8 14-64468 A/C.3/69/SR.43 continue his work on the report on the status of Uganda and Zambia had joined the sponsors. The text ratification of the Convention. All member States were of the draft resolution remained unchanged from that urged to ratify the amendment to the Convention of General Assembly resolution 67/157, which had relating to the financial situation of the Committee. It been adopted by consensus in the previous year, with would be possible to monitor the status of payments merely technical updates. In the text, the General due to the Committee more efficiently through the Assembly reaffirmed the fundamental status of the report of the Secretary-General on the financial right to self-determination as a precondition for the situation of the Committee, in which member States effective guarantee and observance of other human that were in arrears were urged to fulfil their rights, declared its opposition to acts of foreign outstanding financial obligations. In the text of the military intervention, aggression and occupation and draft resolution, the General Assembly invited the deplored the plight of millions of refugees and Secretary-General to present an annual report on the internally displaced persons who had been uprooted as fight against all forms of racial discrimination. a result of such acts. 9. Ms. Sharma (Secretary of the Committee) said Agenda item 68: Promotion and protection of human that Albania, Andorra, India, Israel, Monaco, Panama rights (continued) and San Marino had joined the sponsors. (b) Human rights questions, including alternative Agenda item 67: Right of peoples to self- approaches for improving the effective determination (continued) (A/C.3/69/L.53 enjoyment of human rights and fundamental and A/C.3/69/L55) freedoms (continued) (A/C.3/69/L.26, A/C.3/69/L.34,A/C.3/69/L.35, A/C.3/69/L.39, Draft resolution A/C.3/69/L.53: Use of mercenaries as A/C.3/69/L.40, A/C.3/69/L.41, A/C.3/69/L.42, a means of violating human rights and impeding the A/C.3/69/L.43 and A/C.3/69/L.47) exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. Draft resolution A/C.3/69/L.26: The right to privacy in 10. Ms. Moreno Guerra (Cuba) said that the draft the digital age resolution drew attention to the serious problem of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human 13. Mr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Brazil), rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples speaking also on behalf of Germany, introduced the to self-determination. It was important to prepare, draft resolution, which followed up on General present and discuss concrete proposals on potential Assembly resolution 68/167, which had been adopted rules or guidelines to fill existing gaps, promote greater by consensus in 2013. The report of the Office of the protection of human rights, particularly the right of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights peoples to self-determination, and tackle current (OHCHR) on the right to privacy in the digital age threats relating to mercenaries or mercenary-related (A/HRC/27/37), submitted in accordance with activities, such as the actions of military and private resolution 68/167, had confirmed that many States security enterprises. Algeria, Belarus, China, lacked adequate national legislation and had weak Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, El Salvador, procedural safeguards and ineffective oversight India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Nigeria, Russian mechanisms for their monitoring and surveillance Federation, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and programmes, all of which had contributed to a lack of Zimbabwe had joined the sponsors. accountability for arbitrary or unlawful interference with the right to privacy. The report had stressed the 11. Ms. Sharma (Secretary of the Committee) said need for an in-depth analysis of those issues, practical that Egypt, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Libya, guidance on the principles of necessity, proportionality Myanmar, Niger, Sri Lanka and Uganda had joined the and legitimacy in relation to surveillance practices, and sponsors. effective remedies for those whose rights had been violated.