E/1999/27 E/CN.6/1999/10 (United States); Jaraslova Moserová, Vice-Chair, European Integration Committee, Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic; Glenda P. Simms, Executive Director, Bureau of Women’s Affairs (Jamaica); and Shirin M. Rai, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Women’s Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom). 29. The principal elements emerging from the panel discussions were summarized by the moderators of the two panels — the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the Commission. The text was approved by the Commission for inclusion as an annex to its report (see annex I), and it was neither negotiated nor adopted by the Commission. Action taken by the Commission Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts 30. At the 13th meeting, on 11 March, the observer for Azerbaijan,35 on behalf of Argentina,35 Azerbaijan,35 Bangladesh, 35 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 35 Colombia, 35 Ecuador, 35 Georgia,35 Guatemala,35 Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan,35 Kazakhstan,35 Kyrgyzstan,35 35 Malaysia, Namibia,35 Nigeria,35 Pakistan,35 Peru, South Africa,35 Tajikistan, Thailand, 35 35 35 Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts” (E/CN.6/1999/L.5). Subsequently, Costa Rica,35 Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Italy, Senegal, the Sudan and Uruguay35 joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. 31. At the 14th meeting, on 12 March, the Commission adopted the draft resolution (see chap. I, sect. D, resolution 43/1). Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 32. At the 13th meeting, on 11 March, the observer for Zambia,35 on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the African group of States, Norway and Thailand, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome” (E/CN.6/1999/L.6), and orally revised it as follows: (a) In the fourth preambular paragraph, the words “have access to education, health care, social security and other basic services to enable them to” were inserted before the words “enjoy full social and economic rights”, and the words “such as education, health care, welfare” were deleted before the words “and therefore suffer disproportionately”; (b) In operative paragraph 1, the word “equal” was inserted before the words “access to health”. 33. Subsequently, the United States of America joined in sponsoring the draft resolution, as orally revised. 34. At the 14th meeting, on 12 March, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as orally revised (see chap. I, sect. D, resolution 43/2). 35 34 In accordance with rule 69 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council.