A/RES/51/90 Page 4 process of restructuring the Centre, inter alia, through informal open briefing sessions; 8. Encourages the High Commissioner, within his mandate as set out in General Assembly resolution 48/141, to continue to play an active role in promoting and protecting human rights, including by preventing human rights violations throughout the world, and in this context requests the SecretaryGeneral to support activities proposed by the High Commissioner; 9. Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fifty-second session under the item entitled "Human rights questions". 82nd plenary meeting 12 December 1996