UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

CCPR/SP/50/Add.2

18 September 1997

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Seventeenth meeting

New York

7 October 1997

ELECTION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 28 TO 34 OF THE

INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS,

TO FILL A VACANCY ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

In connection with the list of candidates mentioned in annex III to document CCPR/SP/50, the Permanent Mission of Jordan to the United Nations Office at Geneva has informed the Secretariat, in a note dated 16 September 1997, that the Government of Jordan has decided to withdraw the nomination of Mr. Mohammed Tarawneh as its candidate in the forthcoming elections to the Human Rights Committee.

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