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1 \ Page 2 The meetng ÿ.tas called to order at 3.15 o.mo AGENDA ITEH 75ÿ DRAFT CONVENTION ON THE ELIHINATION OF DISCRIHINAT!ON AG.&INSÿ WOn"TEN (A/34/60 and Corrol and 2ÿ A/31,/357ÿ A/34/542o A/C.3/34/14 A/Co3/34/L 73 L.75ÿ L.7Jÿ L 77ÿ L.78ÿ L.79) (contnued). The CHAIRMAN announced' that, although the report of the Uorkng Grou]0 (A/C.3-/ÿ-/lÿ)ÿ was not yet avalable n Arabcÿ the Arab countres had agreed that the Coÿnttee should proceed to vote on the amendments to the draft Conventon so that t could complete ts work by 7 December. He thanked those countres for ther coÿoperaton. 2. Hro GONZALEZ de LEON (Hexco) sad thatÿ although hs delegaton had alÿ.ÿays pressed for work on the draft Conventon to be speeded upÿ t was aware that the draft had been completed only two weeks ÿrevously and that not all the relevant doctmlents were avalable n all languages so that Goverpmÿ.ents could consder the provsons of the draft n depth. The draft Conventon contaned varous provsons for whch several alternatves had been submttedÿ and at the Colmÿtteeÿs prevous meetng a ntunber of delegatons had begun to submt amenÿent s. 3. If the Comuttee was to produce a unversally acceptable textÿ the present draft should reman open for comnents for at least a year. Some delegatons had argued that t was preferable for the draft Conventon to be opened for sgnature pror to the 1980 ÿbr!d Conference of the Unted Hatons Decade for Women. Hs de!egatonÿ hoÿ.teverÿ beleved that the Conference mght be able to mprove on the exstÿ,s draft and ensure that t was acceÿdtable to a greater nÿ'ÿoer of countres. He wshedÿ thereforeÿ to ÿropose formally that the adopton of the, draft Conventon should be postponed to the thrty offth sesson of the General Assembly so that Governments ÿ,tould have tme to make any co:ÿm_ents they shed wth regard to t. He was not proposng that the text should be redrafted.ÿ t consttuted an extremely valuable basc document whch mght: howeverÿ be much mproved by the procedure whch he had proposed. 4o The CHAIRIÿLAN requested the representatve of }ÿexco to submt hs ÿroÿosal n ÿrtng as a draft decson of the Coÿmttee ÿ. DYRLUND (Denmark) sad thatÿ whle he could understand the consderatons whch had prompted the representatve of Mexco to make hs proposal, he beleved that, n veÿ of the consderable ÿount of work whch had gone nto the preparaton of the draft Conventonÿ t could be fnalzed at the current sesson. He therefore appealed to the representatve of Hexco to wat and see how the draft Conventon fared n the Commttee before makng hs proposal formally. 6. Mrs. SIBAL (-Inda) observed that the Commttee stll had three meetngs left n whch to vote on the amen&ments and consder the texts of the varants shoÿn n square brackets. The ssue was clearly not one of tme, for delegatons wÿ!re theo: a!en( appeÿ sessj Thsÿ Convÿ reduc She t forma could rete: 7. Unte< sever8 I ther sound. Conven Confer the el the De, O u, Eÿ unverÿ was avÿ helptc number submt expedt z_r put nt{ more thÿ amendmeÿ for the the ameÿrepresek should % 0o ÿs not to x,ÿ Convent, acheve She therÿ formally aware of ther Governmentsÿ postons on the outstandng problems and should n

2 ! ' 1/C.3/3 / R,71 Englsh Page 3, (_T,,T_rs Sbalÿ Inda) theory nÿsdcfÿrualtyon h ove h "ng on b th the draft Conventon and the ot! o amend_ÿuents... ÿ ÿ_ÿe ÿ'1orÿ_ÿng ÿroudÿ she ÿ,ÿshed t9 reterate her I! appeal that the CoKmttee try to adopt the draft C onventzon at the current sesson so that t would be avalable n fnal form for the 1980 World Conference, That Conference would ÿ r " ÿ. p ovmÿe an, extremely valuable opportunty to ÿublcze the Conventzonÿ and t would be regrettable f such an opportunty was lostÿ thereby reducng the chances of the Conventon beng followed un at the natonal level. She therefore appealed to the representatve of Mexco not to submt hs oroposal formally at that stage. If t became clear by 7 December that the Comlnttee could not adopt the draft Conventon: the renresentatve of Hexco could then reterate hs proposal. 7. Mr. BY!(OV (Unon of Sovet Socalst Renublcs) observed that varous Unted Natons organs had been workng on the text of the draft Conventon for several years and that the draft had already been transmtted to Goverm@ents for ther veÿ,ts. The arguments nut forÿ,ÿard by the representatve of Inda were very sound. There x,tas a possblty that the Colmÿttee mght fnalze the draft Conventon at the current sesson. He also wshed to recall that the 1975 Uorld I, I :, Conference n Hexco had establshed the draftns and adopton of a Conventon on the elmnaton of dscrmnaton aganst ÿ,romen as one of the. man objectves of! the Decade for Women. 8. Every effort had been made to ensure that the draft Conventon ÿtas unversally acceptable andÿ as ÿ -,ÿas avalable n fnal form n tme the for representatmve the 1980 World of Conferenceÿ Inda had ÿonted that ÿ,7ould outÿ f t help to publcze t and would probably result n ts beng sgned by a larger ntÿmber of States. He therefore aÿnealed to the representatve of Hexco not to submt hs proposal formally at the present stage. That would nether help to expedte the adopton of the Conventon nor mprove the stuaton n any othep ÿ,tay 9. -ÿr KIPLAGAT (K.enya) observed that a consderable amount of ÿ,ÿork had been put nto the preparaton of the draft Conventon over the past three years by more than 50 delegatons and that the draft had been avalable for comments and amendments for some tme. It should therefore be adopted at the current sesson for the reasons put forÿard by the representatve of Inda. He had no doubt that the amendments could be adopted wthout further delay and he aÿpealed to the representatve of Hexco not to nropose formally that the adonton of the draft should be postponed. ÿ 0o Hrs. LORANGER (Canada) agreed wth earler speakers that t ÿas mportant not to ÿ,ÿaste tme and effort by deferrng a fnal decson on the draft _ Conventon. The Commttee should ÿroceed wth ts ÿ,ÿork and see hoÿ,ÿ much t could acheve before decdng ÿhether t-needed to ÿostpone the adopton of the draft. She therefore appealed to the representatve of Hexco not to submt hs nroÿosal formally at that stage... Poo

3 A/C.3/3WSR.?! Englsh Page 4 o Hs. RICHT,ÿ_ÿ?, (Argentna) agreed wth other delegatons that the draft Conventon should be fnalzed at the current sesson. Moreover once the Commttee had adopted, the draft ÿ t_ereln would be tme before ts adopton" n the plenary Assembly for Governments to have ther veÿ s taken nto account. 12.!,,ÿo CABRERA (Span) endorsed the c@mÿents made by earler speakers. Tme was short and t would be best f the Co1ÿ_ttee voted as soon as possble on the amenÿ_ents to the draft Conventon and on the remanng passages n square brackets. The proposal by the representatve of!#exco mght Drove eÿtreme!y usefu!ÿ howeverÿ f the Commttee found, that t could not reach over-all aÿreeÿent on the draft and the varous amendments. He therefore thought t mg]ÿ be advsble to suspend the meetng for a bref percd to permt nformal consultatons on the Hexcan proposal. 13o ÿ. VOLLERS (Federal Republc of Germany) sad that he supported the ÿroposal by the representatve of Hexco. The draft Conventon produced by the Worÿng Group was very soundÿ but several ssues remaned unresolved. Work had ndeed been under way on the draft Conventon for the past three yearsÿ but only the revous day neÿ proposals and ÿencÿnents had been put forÿ ard whch could alter the actual substance of the draft. Governments must have tme to submt ther comÿuents. For nstanceÿ hs Government could not decde overnght ÿ.ÿat poston to adopt on certan amendments ÿ,fluch had legal mplcatons. 14. Hrs. IfARZ&Z! (Horocco) endorsed the proposal by the representatve of Mexco. 15. Mr. 0ULD SIDVAHMED VALL (Haurtana) sad thatÿ ÿ,ÿle he ÿtas aware of the mportance whch certan delegatons attached to the draft Conventonÿ he beleved that f the Conventon was to be effectve and ÿeneral!y acceptable t must be gven very full consderaton.!le therefore dd not agree that t should be fnalzed n tme for the 1980 World Conference. The Comÿnttee couldÿ of courseÿ dscuss the amencÿents at the current stageÿ but t must ensure that ther mplcatons ÿere consdered fully before t adopted a fnal text. If that could be done by 7 Decemberÿ well and good. If notÿ the draft's fnalzaton should be postponed to the thrty-ffth sesson. 16o ÿ:ÿ. OÿDONOVAN (Ireland) agreed wth the representatve of Span that nformal consultatons on the Hexcan proposal mght prove useful. He therefore moved that the meetng should be suspended for a bref perod n accordance wth Rule 18 of the Rules of Procedure. 17. The CYÿIRÿ,&N sad that ÿ f he heard no objectonsÿ he would take t that the Co!m'attee decded to endorse the moton by the representatve of Ireland. 18. It ÿ as so decded, The meetng was susoended at 3.55 p.m. and resÿed at 4.20 p.m. 19 mpor take propo 20. decsÿ some ( receÿ mport poss% delega 21.!"I propos at the 22. 2ÿ A/C. report the Elff A/c.3/ current Expend the pro Docÿaen outlne 23. 5b and the Convent: at fac] waste oÿ 24, ÿo Conven-tÿ the lega represen make a c Consder brackets lght of 25. ÿs. tendmen{ best to s Conventc Sxth Com '/. /

4 o ÿ cÿ.ÿ/c.._,/.:,w,.,e. 7z "ÿ,7.1.ÿnglsh Page 5 u!, 19. Tÿo BOCOUtÿ (ÿ.lal) sad that tlne subjectÿmatter of the draft Conventon was mportant and complex and had legal mplcatons) and the Colÿmÿttee should not take a decson on t n haste. Hs delegaton therefore supportedthe ÿ',ÿexcan proposal. 20. ÿ,ÿ!o --" ;ÿ&l<ÿl - -_z_(oman) sad thao hs Ge-egaton ÿ 7 had been prepared to tal,'e a decson on the draft Conventon but the large number of last.-mnute amendmentsÿ ' some of ÿ,rhch ÿere qute substantalÿ made t necessary for hs delegaton to receve nstructons from hs Government before t could proceed. It ÿ,ÿas mportant that the Conventon should be acceptable to as many -r'ÿemoer States as possble and compatble ÿ,tth the many cultures and relgons represented. Hs delegaton therefore supported the ÿ4excan prooosal] 21. Ms. ÿop (Yugoslava) sad that her delegaton could not support the Mexcan proposal. TJork on the draft Conventon must contnue so that t could be adopted at the current sesson f at all possble. 22. ÿ. PAPADEI, L&S (Secretary of the Co-,--mÿlttee) drev attenton to docÿunent J/34/,ÿ.7v contanng the achnnstratve and fnancal molcatons of the report of the Uorkng GrouD of the T:Tho!e on the Draftng of the Conventon on the ÿ zmznatzon " " ' of Dscrmnaton aganst Women contaned n document A/C.3/34/14. If the Cormÿttee decded to adopt the draft Conventon at the current sesson,ÿ there would be no fnancal mplcatons for Expendtures ÿ,tould occur when the body to be formed for the purpose of consderng the progress made n the mplementaton of the Conventon ÿ,zas establshed. Document A/C,3/34/L.78 covered the three alternatve oroposals for that body outlned n part V of the draft Conventon. 23. ÿ. ERRAZURIZ (Chle) sad that the draft Conventon hÿd legal mplcatons and the proposed amendÿents would requre careful consderaton. The draft Conventon and the amenÿnents should be adopted by consensus and any measures amed at facltatng that consensus would be useful and should not be consdered a waste of tme Hs delegaton therefore supported the Mexcan proposal. ' 24. Mr o DABO (Gunea) sad that the bostponement of the adopton of the draft t n e a h r amendment S. The!!venton r a,<ould be e unfortunate a but t perhaps t Offered the best ÿ,ray f dealng ÿ th make a contrbuton to the Conventon. He SUggested h ÿ -o that ]'Torld the Conference Com_mttee mght could consder only the ameÿct, nents to the draftÿ try 1o elmnate the remannÿ square brackets and adopt a orovson statng that the draft would be revsed n the lght of the results of the comng ]ÿorld Conference. :!' 25. Ms. de la Iÿ{&ZA (Domncan Re,oublc a2ÿlendÿ-en-t-s-had-reÿ -hed maÿ.v dele,ÿ+.ÿ... ) sad that n vev of the fact that best to alloÿ,t Goverrmÿents an opportunty o-... only to COnsder n the past them 24 hoursÿt and refer would the draft be Conventon and the amendments to the General Assembly for consderaton by the Sxth Commttee. Her delegaton supported the Mexcan proposal.

5 A/Co 3/34tSPÿ. 71 l%%ÿglsh Page <q 26. Hs. HOLZER (Austra) sad that much work had gone nto preparng the draft Conventon and-that the deals put forward n most of the amendments were not new but had been dscussed n the Uorkng Group and were reflected n ts report. It should stll be possble wthn the tme avalable to fnalze work on the draft Conventon and the amendments f the Commttee addressed tself to that task ÿuedately. If necessaryÿ t ÿould take a decson afterwards on how to proceed wth the teÿ@ once t had been fnalzed. She appealed to the representatve of Hexco not to press hs proposal. 27. }@. BEKELE (Ethopa) sad t was hs understandng that the representatve of Hexco had not called for a suspenson of the dscusson of the draft Conventon or the amenÿents but had merely proposed that the adopton of the draft Conventonÿ when t was readyÿ should be deferred to the thrty-ffth sesson. 28. Nÿ. GONZALEZ de LEON (Mexco) sad that the Ethopan representatve,s understandng was correct. The remanng tme avalable at the current sesson could be used for dscussng the amenaÿentsÿ tdynÿ up the text and elmnatng alternatve versons and the square brackets. It would be useful for the Commttee to try to reconcle the varous versons and prepare a clear textÿ whch should not, howeverÿ be adopted at the current sesson but should be deferred to the thrtyffth sesson. Hs delegatonvs proposal was beng crculated as a draft decson n document A/C.3/34/L.79o 29. Hr. BEKELE (Ethopa) urgedÿ n the lght of the clarfcaton provded by the representatve of Mexcoÿ that the Commttee should take up dscusson of the draft Conventon and amendments mmedately and no longer dscuss the Hexcan ÿrodosal. 30 The CHAIRMAN felt that snce the Mexcan proposal was the text furthest removed n substance from the draft resoluton relatng to the adopton of the draft conventon (A/C.3/34/L.75)ÿ t should be voted on frst. If the Hexcan proposal was adoptedÿ the Commttee would then take Up the amendmentsÿ generally tdy up the teÿ@ of the draft and elmnate the square bracketsÿ on the understandng that the resultng textÿ after all decsons had been takenÿ would stll be a draft and not the fnal verson of the Conventon. It would then be submtted to Governments. If the Mexcan proposal was not adoptedÿ the Commttee would proceed to take decsons on the amendments and prepare the fnal text of the Conventon for possble adopton at the current sesson. 31. Hs. VÿY DEN ASSUH (Netherlands) sad that there were two separate matters whch should not be confused. There wasÿ on the one handÿ, the Mexcan draft decsonÿ applyng to the procedure Whch the General Assembly should follow wth regard to the draft Conventonÿ and9 on the other handÿ there were the amendments to the teÿ@ of the draft Conventon. Snce the Mexcan proposal was not an amendment t should not be consdered before the amendments. It would be correct to consder t only after all the amendments had been dealt wth and just before draft resoluton A/C.3/34/L.75 callng for the adopton of the draft Conventon. 32. The C ¼1Rÿ ÿ2ÿ thought that t would be dffcult for the Commttee to take a decson on the "fnal'ÿ text of the draft Conventon and then refer that supposedly fnalÿ text to Governments for comments and possble further change. 33 frs st at emer dele cat J taken or text coÿ could bc 34. ÿ.ÿro mportar prepare draft a accepta% at the p therefor 35. Hr. nstrume many Hem had eÿr and the the Mex 36 Hs. unreason Commtte delegat, { were not back to mnstr, B7. ÿ. very conÿ there seÿ workng I workng : 'Would th( wast ed. mmedat( Sesson. proposal amendmenÿ A/C.3/34/ the repro Stage who 38. Hrs. and Austr Proposal.

6 /b S/SLÿ/bn, fl Englsh Page Hrs. HO]RRISON (Lesotho) felt that the Charman's nter}dretaton of the statement just made by the representatve of the Netherlands would confuse delegatons. The pont was that the text should be tded upÿ decsons should be taken on amendmentsÿ and the square br@ckets shoulÿ be elmnated so that a clear text could be prepared. Once that pont had been reachedÿ the Mexcan proposal could be consdered. 34. ÿr. AL-KUTTAB (Unted Arab Emrates) sad that the draft Conventon was an mportant nternatonal nstrument and requred thorough study, All efforts to prepare the best possble Conventon should be encouraged, The pont was not to draft a text for mmedate adopton but to prepare a Conventon that would be acceptable to a large number of Hember Statesÿ whch dd not seem to be the case at the present stage as far as the exstnÿ teÿ@ was concerned. Hs delegaton therefore supported the Mexcan proposal. 35. Hr. WANG Jechen (Chna) sad that the Conventon would be an nternatonal nstrumÿent and should be prepared carefullyÿ so that t would be acceptable to as many Hember States as possble and enjoy comprehensve support. Many delegatons had eÿressed the need for addtonal tme to consder the amendments and the textÿ and ther vews should be taken nto account. Hs delegaton therefore supported the Mexcan proposal. 36, Ms. FAWTHORPE (New Zealand) sad that the Hexcan proposalÿ though nerhaps not unreasonableÿ was premature and had the unfortunate effect of dstractng the Comnttee from dscusson of the substance of the matter. She felt that most delegatons were n a poston to consder the amendmentsÿ the majorty of vhch were not new. There was also the danner thatÿ f the draft Conventon were referred back to Governmentsÿ t mght take a long tme for t to re-emerge from the mnstres concerned. 37. }ÿ. HOLLWAY (Australa) observed that years of work were beng frustrated by a very confusng dscusson and by proposals submtted at the last mnute for whch there seemed to be very lttle justfcatonÿ snce the Worknÿ Groupÿ whch was a workng group of the whole open to partcpaton by all delegaÿonsÿ had been workng for a long tme and ts work was known to all nterested delegatons, It would therefore be napproprateÿ even neglgentÿ to allow any more tme'to be wasted. The Cormÿttee should turn to consderaton of the re;@ and the amendments mmedately and make every effort to adopt the draft Conventon at the current sesson. He agreed wth the representatve of the Netherlands that the Mexcan Proposal must not be allowed to put the cart before the horseÿ t was not an amendment but should be consdered as an alternatve to draft resoluton A/C.3/34/L.75 callng for the adopton of the draft Conventon To avod confuson the representatve of Hexco should wthdraw hs proposal ad resubmt t at a later Stage when the text of the draft Conventon was ready. y o. Mrs. de -ROSENHOUSE (Guatemala) supported the representatves of the Netherlands and Australa and requested the representatve of Hexco to wthdraw or defer hs Propo s al. /ap.

7 A/C.3/34/SR.71 Englsh Page Hro DESKER (Sngapore) sad that the Commÿttee should move on to consderaton of the text of the draft Conventon and decde later what to that text. 40. ÿ'b. THIAH (Senegal) sad that n the lght of the dscusson n the Commttee t was unreasonable to expect that the Commttee could examne and adopt the draft Conventon at the current sesson. There was the problemÿ referred to by several delegatonsÿ that the text would be m conflct wth exstng legslaton under the varous socal and legal systems represented n the Unted Natons. Many conventons had been adopted but there had been less success n havng them ratfed and generally mplemented. He therefore supported the Mexcan proposal. 41o The CHAIRÿ¼N sad he would suspend the meetng to consult wth a representatve of the Legal Offce as to how to proceed wth regard to the varous proposals before the Commttee. The meetng was suspended from 5.15 p.m. to 5.25 p.m. 421 Hr. GONZALEZ de LEON (Mexco) expressed regret that hs procedural proposal appeared to have been msunderstood as an amendment. Hoÿ{everÿ he felt that the problem could be solved by movng an amendment to document A/C.3/34/L.75 under whch operatve paragraphs I and 2 would be replaced by the follownÿ two operatve paragraphs conceved along the lnes of the draft decson n document A/C.3/34/L.79: 'ÿ. Warmly congratulates the Workng Group whch prepared the Draft 46 It 47. Hrs to her s ac c ept aÿ 48. l"ÿr s 49. ÿ,ÿ. to have to wthd would no square bÿ draft Co: records t be transÿ 50. Hr. paragrap aggress( accept tÿ I occupatc 51. Hr. votng sh Conventon on the Elmnaton of Dscrmnaton aganst Womenÿ contaned n document A/C 3/34/14[ 'ÿ2o Decdes to transmt the draft to the Governments of Member States n order that they may have an opportunty to submt ther fnal observatons to the Secretarat so that the General Assembly may consder them n the Sÿ@h Commttee at ts thrty-ffth sesson and adopt the draft n 1980.ÿ If that would solve the problemÿ hs delegaton would be prepared to submt the proposedamendment formallyÿ provded the draft Conventon would not thereby cease to be a draft. 43. The CHAIRHAN sad that the representatve of the Legal Offce had confrmed that the text would retan ts status as a draft. 44. Hr. GONZALEZ de LEON (Hexco) sad that n that case he would submt the text he had just read out as an amendment to the draft resoluton n document A/Co3/34/L.75 and wthdraw the draft decson n document A/C.3/34/Lo The CHAIRMAN suggested thatÿ under rule 106 of the rules of procedureÿ the debate on the subject should be closed and the Commttee should proceed to consderaton of the amendments and of the passages n square brackets. /..

8 :I 41 A/Co 3/3 /os. 7Z.,ÿnglJ-sh Page o J 46. It wÿs so decded. 47. ]',rs. SIBAL (Inda.) sad she wshed to add the words ÿand foregn Occupatonÿ, to her subamendment to the eleventh preambular paragraph n order to make t more acceptable to the Algeran representatve. 48. lÿs. SEHICHI (Algera) ndcated her acceptance of that change. 49. l'jr. EDIS (Unted Kngdom) expressed the vew that t would have been better to have a non-poltcal preamble to the draft Conventon. Howeverÿ he was prepared to wthdraw hs amendment n document A/C.3/34/L.76 on the understandng that that vould not preclude separate votes on the preambular paragraphs once the queston of Square brackets and subamendments had been cleared up and provded thatÿ f the draft Conventon was referred to Governmentsÿ as had been proposed by Mexcoÿ the records of the debateÿ ncludng the proposal n document A/C.3/34/L.76ÿ would also be transmtted to Governments. 0. Mro WANG Jechen (Chna) sad that hs amendment to the tenth preambular paragraph contaned n document A/C. 4 aggressonÿ nterferenceÿ domnaton and 3/o /L occupaton" 77 " had used Howeverÿ the words foremgn he " was prepared to accept the Syran subamendment so that the text would read "aggressonÿ foregn occupaton and domnatonÿ nterference n the nternal affars of Statesÿ. 51. Hr. O'DONOVAN (Ireland)ÿ speakng on a pont of order,ÿ proposed that the votng should be postponed untl the evenng meetng. The meetng rose at 6 p.m.