E/2012/27 E/CN.6/2012/16 (l) Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women (A/HRC/19/30-E/CN.6/2012/13); (m) Note by the Secretariat transmitting the results of the forty-ninth and fiftieth sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (E/CN.6/2012/CRP.1); (n) Statements submitted by non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.6/2012/NGO/1-74). 2. At the 2nd meeting, on 27 February, opening addresses were made by the President of the Economic and Social Council and the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. 3. At the same meeting, introductory statements were made by the UnderSecretary-General, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and by the Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. 4. Also at the same meeting, the Commission heard statements by the keynote speakers, Ms. Anne Tutwiler, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and Ms. Elisabeth Atangana, President of the Plateforme régionale des organizations paysannes d’Afrique Centrale. 5. Also at the 2nd meeting, statements were made by the representative of Algeria (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China), Tunisia (on behalf of the African States), Denmark (on behalf of the European Union and associated countries), Chile (on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States), Argentina (on behalf of the States members of the Common Market of the South), Samoa (on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum), and Angola (on behalf of the Southern African Development Community). 6. At the 2nd meeting, statements were also made by the observers for the Gambia, Swaziland and France. 7. At the same meeting, on the proposal of the Chair, the Commission agreed to transmit the Chair’s summary of the discussion of the high-level round table (E/CN.6/2012/CRP.3) 1 and the moderators’ summaries of the panel discussions on the priority theme (E/CN.6/2012/CRP.4 and E/CN.6/2012/CRP.5)1 to the Council as input for its annual ministerial review in 2012. 8. At the 5th meeting, on 28 February, statements were made by the representatives of Jamaica (on behalf of the Caribbean Community), China, Italy, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Liberia, the Republic of Korea, the Dominican Republic and Zimbabwe. 9. At the same meeting, statements were also made by the observers for Nigeria, Austria, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Brazil, Guyana, South Africa, Mexico, Samoa, Tunisia, Ghana, the United Republic of Tanzania, Fiji, the Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Honduras, Portugal, Indonesia, Morocco and Ethiopia. __________________ 1 12-27405 See chap. VII, para. 11. 29

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