Human rights situation of the Lebanese detainees in Israel

    Note by the Secretary-General

 

1.   In its decision 2003/… of 24 July 2003,1 the Economic and Social Council, taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution  of 16 April 2003,2 on the human rights situation of the Lebanese detainees in Israel, endorsed the Commission’s decision to request the Secretary-General to bring Commission resolution 2003/8 to the attention of the Government of Israel and to call upon it 51ÁÔÆæ its provisions, and to report to the Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the results of his efforts in that regard. 

2.   In view of the above-mentioned requests, the Secretary-General addressed a note verbale to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Israel on 10 June 2003. 

3.   No reply had been received at the time of the preparation of the present note.

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*  A/58/150.

 1  See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 3 (E/2003/23), part I, chap. I, sect. B, draft resolution 1.

 2   Ibid., chap. II, sect. A.

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Document symbol:
Document Type: Note
Document Sources: General Assembly, Secretary-General
Country: Israel, Lebanon
Subject: Fourth Geneva Convention, Human rights and international humanitarian law
Publication Date: 05/08/2003