The United Nations Economic and Social Council today opened a three-day session to decide on action which will enable the Commission on Human Rights to complete work on the drafts of two international covenants on human rights and measures to implement them.
By a vote of 14 to none, with three abstentions–Czechoslovakia, Poland and the USSR–the Council decided at its opening session today to transmit a request to the Commission on Human Rights to complete and submit to the next session of the Council two draft international covenants on human rights, one covering civil and political rights, and the other to deal with economic, social and cultural rights.
A number of representatives stated that their votes related only to a procedural matter–transmission to the Commission on Human Rights of the General Assembly resolutions–and that the vote did not commit them to the substance to be discussed at the Council’s next session on the basis of the report the will eventually be submitted by the Commission.
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