31 May 1991

13th plenary meeting

Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 1991/41 of 5 March 1991,

1. Authorizes an open-ended working group of the Commission on Human Rights to meet for a period of two weeks prior to the forty-eighth session of the Commission to consider the draft declaration on the protection of all persons from enforced or involuntary disappearances, prepared by the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, with a view to its adoption by the Commission at its forty-eighth session;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to extend all facilities to the working group for its meeting prior to the forty-eighth session of the Commission.