CCPR/C/70/D/547/1993 Page 1 ANNEX VIEWS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE UNDER ARTICLE 5, PARAGRAPH 4, OF THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS - Seventieth session concerning Communication No. 547/1993** Submitted by: Apirana Mahuika et al. (represented by Maori Legal Service) Alleged victim: The authors State party: New Zealand Date of communication: 10 December 1992 (initial submission) Prior decisions: - Special Rapporteur’s rule 91 decision, transmitted to the State party on 14 June 1993 (not issued in document form) - CCPR/C/55/D/547/1993, decision on admissibility, 13 October 1995 The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Meeting on 27 October 2000 Having concluded its consideration of communication No. 574/1993 submitted to the Human Rights Committee by Apirana Mahuika et al. under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Having taken into account all written information made available to it by the author of the communication, and the State party, Adopts the following: ** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present communication: Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Mr. Nisuke Ando, Mr. Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati, Lord Colville, Ms. Elizabeth Evatt, Ms. Pilar Gaitan de Pombo, Mr. Louis Henkin, Mr. Eckart Klein, Mr. David Kretzmer, Ms. Cecilia Medina Quiroga, Mr. Martin Scheinin, Mr. Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen, Mr. Roman Wieruszewski, Mr. Maxwell Yalden, Mr. Abdallah Zakhia. The text of an individual opinion signed by one Committee member is appended to the present document.