was replaced by the following text: "7. Urges Governments, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations to assist the Palestinian people in the implementation of the Declaration of Principles in order to ensure Palestinian women’s political development and participation"; (b) Operative paragraph 8, which had read: "8. Urges Governments, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations to ensure that women are included in the design and implementation of all policies and programmes evolving from the Declaration of Principles, with a special emphasis on women’s interests in those programmes related to environment, democracy, health, population, education and employment", was deleted. 29. At the same meeting, the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran made a statement. 30. The Commission then adopted the draft resolution, as orally revised (see chap. I, sect. C, resolution 38/1). 31. After the adoption of the draft resolution, statements were made by the representatives of Bangladesh, France, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malaysia and Pakistan and the observers for Israel, Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic. 32. The observer for Palestine also made a statement. 33. At the 17th meeting, on 18 March, the observer for the Syrian Arab Republic made a statement with regard to the draft resolution. Mainstreaming women’s human rights 34. At the 14th meeting, on 16 March 1994, the representative of the Netherlands, on behalf of Argentina, 42/ Australia, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, 42/ Bulgaria, Canada, 42/ Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, 42/ Finland, France, Greece, 42/ Ireland, 42/ Israel, 42/ Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, 42/ the Netherlands, New Zealand, 42/ Norway, 42/ Portugal, 42/ the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, 42/ Thailand, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 42/ the United Republic of Tanzania 42/ and Venezuela, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.9) entitled "Mainstreaming women’s human rights". Subsequently, Austria, Cyprus, Ethiopia, 42/ Germany, 42/ India, Mali, 42/ Slovakia, Switzerland 42/ and Turkey, 42/ joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. 35. At the 16th meeting, on 18 March, the delegation of Côte d’Ivoire withdrew as a sponsor of the draft resolution. 36. At the same meeting, the Secretary of the Commission read out revisions to the draft resolution which had been agreed upon during informal consultations. The revisions were as follows: (a) added: At the end of the first preambular paragraph, the following phrase was -66-