Thank you, Chairman.
If I might return to the issue of human rights of women, I'll make the observation that in addition to the language relating to the human rights of women contained in the resolution that we have put forward for the past six years, Canada has also called upon Iran to implement the international human rights conventions it has ratified. Some of those do contain provisions relating to the human rights of women.
We've also called for Iran to cooperate with the UN's special procedures in the human rights area; some of those relate very specifically to issues relating to women. An example is the work of the special rapporteur on violence against women. I'll also observe that in the Secretary General's report to which I made reference earlier, there are some observations regarding the human rights of women. That report is a consequence of the resolution that Canada has put forward over the past number of years. That resolution tasks the Secretary General to produce the report, and that report in turn has been an extremely useful set of observations with regard to the status of human rights in Iran.
