"and noting that, according to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, steps should be taken to increase cooperation and promote further integration of objectives and goals between the Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on Human Rights, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the United Nations Development Programme and other United Nations bodies"; (b) A new first preambular paragraph was inserted, which read: "Recalling all relevant resolutions, in particular General Assembly resolution 44/77 of 8 December 1989, in which, inter alia, the Assembly endorsed and reaffirmed the importance of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women for the period up to the year 2000 and set out measures for their immediate implementation and for the overall achievement of the interrelated guidelines and objectives of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace"; (c) In operative paragraph 4, the words "Encourages the Centre for Human Rights and the Division for the Advancement of Women to explore" were changed to read: "Encourages the Division for the Advancement of Women and the Centre for Human Rights to explore"; (d) Operative paragraph 5, which had read: "5. Encourages the Centre for Human Rights to explore the possibility of convening an expert group meeting to develop specific guidelines for identifying, documenting and reporting on gender-based human rights violations and ways in which to effectively integrate these questions into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations", was deleted; (e) In operative paragraph 6 (para. 5 of the final text), the words "Recommends that the meeting of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies consider on a regular basis at their biennial sessions" were replaced by the words "Recommends that the regular meetings of chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies consider on a regular basis". 37. At the same meeting, Ecuador, Egypt, 42/ Guinea-Bissau, Morocco 42/ and the Philippines joined in sponsoring the revised draft resolution. 38. Also at the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as orally revised (see chap I, sect. C, draft resolution 38/2). Elimination of violence against women 39. 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, Germany, 42/ 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/ Venezuela and Zambia, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.10) entitled "Elimination of violence against women". -67-

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