A/HRC/43/16 Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, the State of Palestine, the Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, the Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, TimorLeste, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, the Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, the Holy See, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, the Republic of Moldova, Honduras, Qatar and the Niger made recommendations. Mali and Mauritania made statements. The complete version of the statements can be found in the webcast archived on the United Nations website. 1 14. In response to questions raised during the interactive dialogue, the delegation of Egypt shared its experience in establishing national mechanisms to follow up on recommendations. A national committee had been set up to follow up the recommendations from the second cycle review, which included all relevant government agencies, the National Council for Women, the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, the National Council for Persons with Disabilities and NGOs. The committee had laid down policies for implementation, monitoring and follow-up. A supreme standing committee was currently being created to replace previous mechanisms and streamline national efforts. Its first task was to devise a national human rights strategy, and it was mandated to prepare reports to treaty bodies and for the universal periodic review, interact with international human rights mechanisms, deal with communications, provide capacity-building programmes, particularly for law enforcement agencies, and mainstream human rights in school curricula. The aim was to spread the culture of human rights. 15. Egypt was committed to continuing its positive cooperation with Human Rights Council mechanisms. It had received the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to nondiscrimination in this context, and it had hosted the sixty-fourth session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and would host the thirty-fourth session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child later in November 2019. Invitations had been extended to six other mandate holders, and work was under way to fix the dates for their visits, considering their busy schedules and budget limitations on the number of visits allowed per year. Given the preparations needed, Egypt would consider extending other invitations once those visits had taken place. 16. A number of steps had been taken to implement the substantive recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, in line with the Constitution and Sustainable Development Goal 11, as well as Sustainable Development Goal target 5.a. A national housing strategy was being devised in consultation with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, the private sector and NGOs. There was no discrimination in the housing sector. Regulations for allocating housing units, for example, did not place any restriction based on sex or sexual behaviour, and no such information was required from applicants. 17. Any act of intimidation or reprisal against those who cooperated with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms was wholly unacceptable. Such acts were thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators held accountable, once sufficient information had been 1 4 Available at http://webtv.un.org/search/egypt-review-34th-session-of-universal-periodicreview/6103312727001/?term=CUBA&sort=date&page=.