text: been present at the time of voting, she would have voted in favour of draft decisions IV and V. 49. Mr. ODOCH-JATO (Uganda) said he had ab­ stained in the vote on draft decision II even though his delegation had been a sponsor of all the resolu­ tions leading to the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. The decision to appoint a special rapporteur was inappropriate, since the duties the special rapporteur would be asked to perform were already being carried out by other bodies, including the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. 50. He had voted in favour of draft decisions IV and V for purely procedural reasons. However, he would not have supported them had their texts been identical to those of the resolutions adopted on the same topics by the Commission on Human Rights at its forty-second session, since his delegation consid­ ered those texts to be unbalanced. 51. Mrs. MIGNOTT (Jamaica) said that her delega­ tion had abstained in the vote on draft resolution XI because, as a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries, it preferred to await the outcome of that Committee's deliberations before according rec­ ognition to the concepts set out in the fourth preambular paragraph of the text just adopted. Furthermore, while the appointment of special rap­ porteurs had been a successful procedure in other instances, she could not support the request to appoint one for the purpose specified in paragraph 6. Her delegation did, however, associate itself fully with all other paragraphs of the resolution that had been adopted. 52. Mr. TELLE (France) said that his delegation had consistently condemned the activities of merce­
analysis: The text appears to be a record of a diplomatic meeting or conference, where representatives discuss and vote on resolutions related to human rights. The language used is formal and diplomatic, and the topics being addressed are specific to international human rights law. The speakers mention the appointment of special rapporteurs, the elimination of intolerance and discrimination, and the recruitment of mercenaries, all of which are relevant to human rights.