E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 “Urges the international community to complement and supplement, through increased international development assistance, efforts of the developing countries that commit increased national funds to fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially to address the needs of women and girls, particularly those countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean, countries at high risk of expansion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and countries in other affected regions whose resources for dealing with the epidemic are seriously limited;”. 56. At the same meeting, Andorra, Angola, Australia, Austria, Belize, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mali, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, Senegal, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. 57. At its 14th meeting, on 10 March, the Commission adopted the draft resolution on women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS, as orally revised (see chap. I, sect. D, resolution 50/2). 58. At the same meeting, after the adoption of the draft resolution, statements were made by the representatives of the United States of America and Canada (on behalf of Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), and by the observers for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Holy See. Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan 59. At the 11th meeting, on 8 March, the observer for Austria, on behalf of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkmenistan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan” (E/CN.6/2006/L.3). 60. At the same meeting the observer for Austria orally revised the text as follows: (a) In operative paragraph 3, the word “Requests” was replaced by the word “Invites”; (b) In operative paragraph 4, the word “Also” before the word “requests” was deleted. 61. At the 13th meeting, on 10 March, the Commission was informed that the draft resolution contained no programme budget implications. 62. At the same meeting, the observer for Austria further revised operative paragraph 1 of the draft resolution by replacing the word “Welcome” by the phrase “Takes note with appreciation of”. 47