På det tidspunkt var det endnu ikke fastlagt, hvordan det skulle sammensættes, og hvordan procedurerne skulle være.
– Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, when we discussed the United Nations reform summit in late September of last year, one of the few things that we could really describe as a success was the planned replacement of the discredited Commission on Human Rights with a new Human Rights Council.