At its 14th plenary meeting, on 15 June 2004, the Economic and Social Council, taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/82 of 21 April 2004,15 endorsed the decision of the Commission to appoint an independent expert to consider the situation of human rights in Burundi and ensure that the authorities are honouring the commitments they had made, and to request the expert to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session and to report to the Commission at its sixty-first session.