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A/AC.265/2006/5

Letter dated 2006/12/05 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman

UN Document Symbol A/AC.265/2006/5
Convention Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Document Type Letter
Session Resumed 8th
Type Document
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1 p.

Subjects Persons with Disabilities

Extracted Text

United Nations A/AC.265/2006/5
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 December 2006
English
Original: Arabic
06-64754 (E) 111206
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Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive
and Integral International Convention on
the Protection and Promotion of the Rights
and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
Resumed eighth session
New York, 5 December 2006
Letter dated 5 December 2006 from the Permanent Representative
of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman
I have the honour, as the Chairman of the Group of Arab States for the month
of December 2006, and on behalf of Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt,
Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic,
Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, to inform you that the
aforementioned States are joining the consensus on the Convention, based on the
understanding that legal capacity, mentioned in paragraph 2 of article 12 of the
Convention, entitled “Equal recognition before the law”, means the capacity of
rights and not the capacity to act, in accordance with the national laws and
legislation of these States.
We kindly request that the present letter be included in the report of the Ad
Hoc Committee. We will be presenting it to the General Assembly when the text of
the Convention is submitted prior to its adoption.
(Signed) Hamad Al Bayati
Chairman of the Group of Arab States for the month of December 2006
Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations