E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 114. After the adoption of the draft resolution, the observer for Yemen, on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Joint Coordinating Committee of the Group of 77 and China and of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Non-Aligned Movement, made a statement. Ending female genital mutilation 115. At the 19th meeting, on 12 March, the observer for Equatorial Guinea, on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group of African States, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, introduced a draft resolution, entitled “Ending female genital mutilation” (E/CN.6/2010/L.8). Subsequently, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Eritrea, France, Germany, Guinea, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Poland, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Turkey joined in sponsoring the draft resolution, which read: “The Commission on the Status of Women, “Recalling General Assembly resolutions 56/128 of 19 December 2001, 58/156 of 22 December 2003 and 60/141 of 16 December 2005, Commission on the Status of Women resolution 51/2 of 9 March 2007 and 52/2 of 7 March 2008 and all other relevant resolutions, as well as all relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, “Welcoming the launch of the Secretary-General’s campaign ‘UNiTE to End Violence against Women’, as well as the launch of the database of the Secretary-General on violence against women during the fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, “Reaffirming that the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, together with their Optional Protocols, constitute an important contribution to the legal framework for the protection and promotion of the human rights of girls, “Reaffirming also the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled ‘Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century’, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development and their five- and ten-year reviews, as well as the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the commitments relevant to the girl child made at the 2005 World Summit, “Recalling the entry into force on 25 November 2005 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women of Africa, adopted in Maputo on 11 July 2003, which contains, inter alia, undertakings and commitments on ending female genital mutilation and marks a significant milestone towards the abandonment and ending of female genital mutilation, 82 10-30576