Human rights/Lebanese detainees in Israel – SecGen note

   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 2003/8 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 to comply with 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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