Importance of the experience of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the situation of human rights in Chile.

33. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE*
176. Importance of the experience of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile

The General Assembly, Bearing in mind Commission on Human Rights resolution 8 (XXXI) of 27 February 1975,[1] in which it established the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile, and resolutions 3 (XXXII) of 19 February 1976,[2] 9 (XXXIII) of 9 March 1977[3] and 12 (XXXIV) of 6 March 1978[4] of the Commission, by which it extended the mandate of the Ad Hoc Working Group, Welcoming the fact that the Ad Hoc Working Group was finally able to travel to Chile and carry out, on the spot, an investigation of the human rights situation in that country in accordance with its mandate, Aware of the importance of this experience in the framework of United Nations activities, when dealing with consistent patterns of gross violations of human Tights,

1. Expresses its great appreciation to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile for the careful and objective manner in which it carried out its mandate;

2. Draws the attention of the Commission on Human Rights to the importance of the experience of the Ad Hoc Working Group in view of the Commission's future action, when dealing with consistent patterns of gross violations of human rights.

90th plenary meeting
20 December 1978

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[1] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 4 (E/5635), chap. XXIII, sect. A. [2] Ibid., Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 3 (11,15768), chap. XX, sect. A. [3] Ibid., Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/5927), chap. XXI, sect. A. [4] See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1978, Supplement No. 4 (E/1978/34), chap. XXVI, sect. A.