A/HRC/6/7 page 2 Summary The group of seven mandate holders (hereinafter “the group of experts”) carried out its task, mandated by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 4/8 (“Follow up to decision S-4/101 of 13 December 2006 adopted by the Human Rights Council at its fourth special session entitled ‘Situation of human rights in Darfur’”), of ensuring the effective follow-up to and fostering of the implementation of resolutions and recommendations on Darfur, as adopted by the Human Rights Council (hereinafter “the Council”), the Commission on Human Rights and other United Nations human rights institutions, as well as the task of promoting the implementation of relevant recommendations of the other United Nations human rights mechanisms, taking into account the needs of the Sudan, safeguarding the consistency of these recommendations and contributing to the monitoring of the human rights situation on the ground. In the present interim report, the group of experts reviews the efforts of the Government of the Sudan to implement the recommendations of the group of experts, bearing in mind that the implementation must be carried out in an ongoing and sustained manner and that the group of experts is due to present a final report to a forthcoming session of Council as requested in Council resolution OM/1/3 adopted on 20 June 2007. As part of its review process, the group of experts held a meeting in Geneva to consider the responses of the Government of the Sudan to its recommendations and in particular to identify areas of progress achieved, as well as shortcomings that still need to be addressed. These recommendations are entitled “Compilation of recommendations of the experts group to the Government of the Sudan for the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 4/8”, and are contained in the annex to the report of the group of experts on the situation of human rights in Darfur (A/HRC/5/6). In this document, the group of experts indicated specifically and in as clear and precise a fashion as possible the kinds of action that the Government of the Sudan should take to implement each recommendation. Moreover, the group outlined the steps to be undertaken to implement the recommendations over the short and medium terms. The Government of the Sudan has endeavoured to address these recommendations and to report back to the group of experts in terms of the indicators that were set out in its compilation of recommendations. The group of experts thanks the Government for meeting with it and for its ongoing cooperation in providing information in a spirit of constructive dialogue. The group of experts underlines its role in assessing the measures taken by the Government of the Sudan to implement the recommendations they have compiled. It will provide the Council with as detailed a description and analysis of the status of implementation as possible in its final report to be presented in December 2007. For several reasons, the group of experts has decided not to present a detailed evaluation of the current state of affairs in relation to the implementation of the specific recommendations in the present interim report. Most importantly it wishes to give the Government of the Sudan the maximum possible time to undertake initiatives responding to its recommendations and to report back on those measures and any impact they may have had. In addition, the group of experts remains keen to obtain as much detailed information as possible from all relevant sources so that it has a more clear and detailed sense of the situation on the ground.