E/2009/27 E/CN.6/2009/15 In favour: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Eritrea, Gabon, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Lesotho, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Qatar, Russian Federation, Senegal, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia. Against: Netherlands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America. Abstaining: Belgium, Cameroon, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden. 70. Before the adoption of the draft resolution, a statement in explanation of vote was made by the representative of the United States. 71. After the adoption of the draft resolution, statements in explanation of vote were made by the representatives of the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan. 72. A statement was made by the observer for Palestine. Preparations for the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women 73. At its 16th meeting, on 13 March, the Commission had before it a draft resolution entitled “Preparations for the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women” (E/CN.6/2009/L.4), submitted by the Chairperson of the Commission on the basis of informal consultations. 74. At the same meeting, the Commission was informed that the draft resolution had no programme budget implications. 75. At the same meeting, a statement was made by the representative of Cuba, to which the Secretary of the Commission responded. 76. Also at its 16th meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution (see chap. I, sect. E, resolution 53/1). Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS 77. At the 16th meeting, on 13 March, the observer for South Africa, on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Southern African Development Community, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS” (E/CN.6/2009/L.8). 78. At the same meeting, the observer for South Africa orally revised the draft resolution as follows: (a) In the thirteenth preambular paragraph and in operative paragraph 8, the words “HIV and AIDS” were replaced by “HIV/AIDS”; (b) In operative paragraph 3, the word “achieve” was replaced by the words “scale up towards”; 38 09-28398