A/HRC/18/25 strengthen the principles on combating impunity, particularly those relating to the right to know and the responsibility of States to guarantee access to information. In this regard, it recommends that the proposed document maintain a link between forensic anthropology practices and each of the pillars of the principles for combating impunity. 36. The Government of Ukraine provided detailed information on various State activities undertaken to continue to further the fulfilment of its international human rights obligations and the implementation of mechanisms for monitoring conduct by State agencies, with particular reference to activities in the criminal justice area. 37. EAAF stated that in 1998 it had commenced building a genetic databank of relatives of disappeared people in Argentina. In 2007, it began collaboration with national institutions on the databank, and entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Health and the National Memory Archive of the National Secretary of Human Rights which created the Archive of blood samples from relatives of victims of forced disappearance between 1974 and 1983, established standard operational procedures, including technical and bioethical guidelines, for the collection, shipment and storage of blood samples and traceability, and created a tripartite coordination commission for the purpose of implementing the agreement. 38. EAAF noted that forensic genetics has a vital role to play in identifying the remains of victims of human rights violations or persons missing as a result of conflict. Creating genetic databanks is crucial to conducting large-scale identification projects. EAAF welcomed the initiative of the Government of Argentina in support of the use of forensic genetics for the identification of victims of human rights and international humanitarian law violations. However, it noted that in light of the “complexity, controversies and byproducts” that may arise in the establishment of genetics databanks, it strongly supports the holding of an international symposium to discuss best practices and the adoption of a protocol or guidelines for the establishment of such databanks. In this regard, EAAF provided a number of considerations for a symposium, which are fully reflected in the 2010 OHCHR report. 39. Referring to the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I, and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the ICRC noted that the obligation to investigate crimes under international law is found in a number of treaties that apply to acts committed in both international and non-international armed conflicts. It also noted that international humanitarian law contains treaty and customary law provisions dealing with various aspects related to the dead, and that the obligation to identify the dead is an obligation of means, such that parties to a conflict must use their best efforts and all means at their disposal. Current practice suggests that exhumation combined with the application of forensic methods, including DNA testing, may be an appropriate method of identifying the dead after burial. In this regard, the ICRC continues to actively promote the development, dissemination and implementation of best practices in forensic sciences, including forensic genetics, applied to the identification of human remains. 34 40. The ICMP noted that States are not currently obliged under international law to use forensic genetics when investigating gross violations of human rights law and serious 34 In this regard, ICRC noted the recommendations from the International Conference of Governmental and Non-Governmental Experts on the Missing and Their Families (2003); see also ICRC, Missing people, DNA analysis and identification of human remains: A guide to best practice in armed conflicts and other situations of armed conflict (2009); Guiding principles/Model law on the missing, Principles for legislating the situation of persons missing as a result of armed conflict or internal violence: Measures to prevent persons from going missing and to protect the rights and interests of the missing and their families (2009). 13