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19. Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights to continue to study this
question as a matter of priority and to take any steps it may deem necessary to the
pursuit of the task of the Working Group and to the follow-up to its
recommendations when it considers the report to be submitted by the Group to the
Commission at its sixty-first session;
20. Renews its requests to the Secretary-General to continue to provide the
Working Group with all of the facilities it requires to perform its functions,
especially for carrying out missions and following them up;
21. Recalls Economic and Social Council decision 2001/221 of 4 June 2001,
in which the Council endorsed the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to
create an intersessional open-ended working group, with the mandate to prepare a
draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from
enforced disappearance;
22. Welcomes the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to convene
the intersessional working group before its sixty-first session, with a view to the
prompt completion of its work and the submission of its report to the Commission at
its sixty-first session;
23. Requests the Secretary-General to keep it informed of the steps he takes
to secure the widespread dissemination and promotion of the Declaration;
24. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixty-first
session a report on the steps taken to implement the present resolution;
25. Decides to consider the question of enforced disappearances, in
particular the implementation of the Declaration, at its sixtieth session, under the
sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.
74th plenary meeting
20 December 2004
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