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enforced disappearances and related matters described in the present report. Member
States should afford full cooperation to ensure the implementation of such a strategy;
(e)
The High Commissioner should periodically report to the Human Rights
Council and other appropriate United Nations organs on the implementation of the
recommendations contained in the present report;
(f)
The Human Rights Council should ensure that the conclusions and
recommendations of the commission do not pass from the active attention of the
international community. Where so much suffering has occurred, and is still
occurring, action is the shared responsibility of the entire international community;
(g)
The United Nations Secretariat and agencies should urgently adopt and
implement a common “Rights up Front” strategy to ensure that all engagement with
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea effectively takes into account, and
addresses, human rights concerns, including those collected in the present report. The
United Nations should immediately apply this strategy to help to prevent the
recurrence or continuation of crimes against humanity in the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea. The strategy should contemplate the possibility of the SecretaryGeneral referring the situation to the Security Council;
(h)
States that have historically friendly ties with the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea, major donors and potential donors, as well as those States already
engaged with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the framework of the sixparty talks, should form a human rights contact group to raise concerns about the
situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and to
provide support for initiatives to improve it;
(i)
States should not use the provision of food and other essential
humanitarian assistance to impose economic or political pressure on the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea. Humanitarian assistance should be provided in
accordance with humanitarian and human rights principles, including the principle of
non-discrimination. Aid should only be curbed to the extent that unimpeded
international humanitarian access and related monitoring is not adequately
guaranteed. Bilateral and multilateral providers of assistance should coordinate their
efforts to ensure that adequate conditions of humanitarian access and related
monitoring are provided by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea;
(j)
Without prejudice to all the obligations under international law that the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea must immediately implement, the United
Nations and the States that were parties to the Korean War should take steps to
convene a high-level political conference. Participants in that conference should
consider and, if agreed, ratify a final peaceful settlement of the war that commits all
parties to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including respect for
human rights and fundamental freedoms. States of the region should intensify their
cooperation and consider following such examples as the Helsinki Process.
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