A/72/53/Add.1 principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles); 27. Notes with appreciation the progressive operationalization of the National Human Rights Commission, welcomes the adoption of its five-year strategic plan and the release of its first annual report, and calls upon the Government to ensure that the Commission is independent, including with regard to its funding, so as to ensure full compliance with the Paris Principles; 28. Encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to maintain and strengthen the momentum of the efforts made to reform the army, the police and the security services; 29. Also encourages the Government to maintain and strengthen its efforts to pursue the reform of the security sector and of the judicial system, including by establishing the remaining superior courts of appeal, and to reform and strengthen its penitentiary system; 30. Further encourages the Government to take appropriate measures to ensure the smooth functioning of all implementing agencies of human rights, including the human rights liaison unit, the National Human Rights Commission, the interministerial committee on human rights, the national commission for the universal periodic review and the unit for the protection of human rights defenders; 31. Welcomes the appointment by the High Commissioner of Bacre Ndiaye, Luc Côté and Fatimata M’Baye as members of the team of international experts on the situation in the Kasai regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 35/33; 32. Encourages the Government to organize a forum on human rights, in particular on the impact of technical assistance by the international community to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 33. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to give an oral update on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions, in an enhanced interactive dialogue; 34. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a comprehensive report on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including in the context of the electoral process, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session in an enhanced interactive dialogue; 35. Decides to remain seized of the situation until its thirty-ninth session. 42nd meeting 29 September 2017 [Adopted by a recorded vote of 45 to 1, with 1 abstention. The voting was as follows: In favour: Albania, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Against: United States of America Abstaining: Republic of Korea] GE.17-18194 85