A/HRC/17/13 61. A coordination scheme has been envisaged to enhance cooperation between ministers dealing with foreign technical cooperation, namely the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance. 62. Regarding the MDGs, since 2002, Sao Tome and Principe has been carrying out several projects to enhance access to drinking water. The delegation indicated that the goal of the Government was to reduce within four years, and by almost 60 per cent, the lack of access to drinking water by the population. 63. Sao Tome and Principe thanked all the delegations for their comments and recommendations, the majority of which were in line with Sao Tome and Principe’s priorities and concerns. The delegation also called on the international community to provide technical assistance to Sao Tome and Principe so that it could properly address its human rights challenges. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 64. The following recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue have been examined by and enjoy the support of Sao Tome and Principe: 64.1. Consider accession to the main regional and international human rights instruments (Angola); 64.2. Ratify and implement outstanding core international human rights treaties (Hungary); 64.3. Continue to extend the range of fundamental international instruments to which Sao Tome is already a party (Cape Verde); 64.4. Proceed with ratifying and fully implementing international instruments to which it is a signatory, including CAT (United Kingdom); 64.5. Immediately ratify ICCPR and its Optional Protocols, and incorporate the provisions into national legislation (Sweden); 64.6. Ratify ICCPR and ICESCR, which it signed in 1995 (Canada); 64.7. Consider, with the assistance of the relevant United Nations bodies, if needed, ratifying the core international human rights instruments to which Sao Tome and Principe is not a party, starting with ICCPR and ICESCR (Algeria); 64.8. Consider taking progressive actions to ratify the core human rights treaties, starting with ICESCR and ICCPR, which it signed in 1995 (Timor Leste); 64.9. Ratify ICCPR, ICESCR and the Optional Protocols to CRC as a matter of priority (Norway); 64.10. Step up its efforts to accelerate the ratification, among others, of ICESCR as well as its Optional Protocol (OP-ICESCR), ICCPR and its first Optional Protocol (ICCPR-OP 1), CAT and its Optional Protocol (OP-CAT), CRC and its Optional Protocols (OP-CRC-AC and OP-CRC-SC), and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW (OP-CEDAW) (Portugal); 64.11. Ratify the treaties already signed, such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), ICESCR, ICCPR, and CAT (Brazil); 64.12. Accede to ICCPR, ICERD and CAT (Poland); 10