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promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights
defenders, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Working Group on
Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, to visit or otherwise continue their work to
improve the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and urges the
Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to live up to the commitment it made
when it issued a standing invitation to special procedures by cooperating with them,
and to illustrate how their subsequent recommendations have been addressed,
including the recommendations of special procedures that have previously visited
the country;
Decides to continue its examination of the situation of human rights in
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the Islamic Republic of Iran at its sixty-second session under the item entitled
“Promotion and protection of human rights”.
81st plenary meeting
19 December 2006
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