A/HRC/7/39 page 25 IV. RECOMMENDATIONS 92. The office in Colombia of OHCHR has continued to support and follow up the implementation of the recommendations made to all relevant institutions in previous reports. The results have been of a varied nature. Noteworthy achievements include the strengthening of the mechanisms for working with the Government, particularly with the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces, and the progress made in judicial investigations of the links of political leaders with paramilitary groups. There is however a need for further progress in the fight against impunity. The economic and political structures of the demobilized paramilitary groups need to be dismantled. The illegal armed groups continue to disregard the recommendations. 93. The office in Colombia intends to take advantage of the extension of its mandate to undertake a review of all the recommendations made during the past 10 years. This exercise will attempt to assess progress, identifying pitfalls and updating pending recommendations where necessary. The follow-up of the recommendations will be re-evaluated in order to promote implementation through more effective, permanent, coordinated and participatory mechanisms. 94. The High Commissioner encourages the authorities to pay special attention to the following recommendations. She is firmly convinced that their implementation will contribute to a substantial improvement in the human rights situation and in respect for international humanitarian law: (a) The High Commissioner calls on the Government, the illegal armed groups and civil society to give priority to full respect for international humanitarian law and human rights, particularly the rights of victims, in their efforts to chart a course for dialogue and negotiations for the achievement of lasting peace; (b) The High Commissioner reiterates the importance of follow-up and implementation of previous recommendations pending. She invites the Government and civil society to continue to progress jointly and systematically in their efforts to establish methodologies to improve implementation of those recommendations. She hopes that the mechanisms set up for this purpose in 2006 will be maintained, and thanks the international community for its permanent accompaniment, which she urges it to continue. She trusts that these efforts will enable priority themes of the National Action Plan on Human Rights and international humanitarian law to be consolidated, and that this Plan will address the causes of the principal challenges in this area; (c) The High Commissioner calls on members of illegal armed groups to practice full respect for the norms of international humanitarian law and to release, immediately and unconditionally, all those they are holding as hostages; (d) The High Commissioner urges the Ministry of Defense and the Attorney General’s Office to implement effective means of dismantling all forms of illegal armed groups that have emerged after the demobilization process began, and to take all measures required to dismantle the political and economic structures of the demobilized paramilitary