A/HRC/26/9 II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 99. The following recommendations will be examined by Vanuatu which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the twenty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council in June 2014: 99.1. Consider accession to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Armenia); 99.2. Accede to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (Estonia); 99.3. Continue current efforts to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) as well as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) as soon as possible (Switzerland); 99.4. Consider ratifying the ICESCR (Spain); 99.5. Sign and ratify the following international instruments: ICESCR and its Optional Protocol (OP- ICESCR), the ICERD, the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, and finally the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Portugal); 99.6. Accede to the ICERD (Iraq); 99.7. Ratify the ICESCR (Ireland); 99.8. Ratify ICESCR (Iraq);1 99.9. Become a party to the ICESCR (Montenegro); 99.10. Continue efforts in strengthening its national legal frameworks, including by ratifying the ICESCR (Indonesia); 99.11. Enhance technical cooperation with and seek support from the UN human rights mechanisms for further consideration of ratification of important documents on human rights, including the ICESCR (Viet Nam); 99.12. Consider ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED), signed in 2007 (Spain); 99.13. Continue the efforts aimed at ratifying the CPED as well as the main international instruments on human rights, to which the country is not yet a party (Argentina); 99.14. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 99.15. Undertake in an effective manner the necessary amendments to fully incorporate the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) into the domestic legal system as soon as possible (Switzerland); ** 1 The conclusions and recommendations have not been edited. The recommendation as read during the interactive dialogue was: “Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and accede to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Iraq)”. 15

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