A/HRC/10/83 Page 18 94. Bangladesh recommended that Uzbekistan: (a) continue to improve living standards, access for basic services such as health and education with full support and cooperation of the international community; (b) continue to engage with the United Nations human rights mechanisms in a constructive manner. 95. Afghanistan noted Uzbekistan is state part to the CEDAW and the ILO Convention on the Protection of Motherhood. Afghanistan enquired about measures taken to implement the stated international treaties and secure gender equality and create favourable conditions for comprehensive development of women. 96. With regards to the penitentiary system and the cooperation with the ICRC, the delegation referred to the policy of “humanising” the prison system and liberation of criminal legislation and stated that currently out of 100 000 citizens, 134 are inmates. After the signing of the 2001 agreement between Uzbekistan and the ICRC on humanitarian activities for detainees, prisons have been regularly visited by foreign and domestic NGOs, media representatives and diplomats. The ICRC visited detention facilities in more than 115 instances, with 19 visits in 2008. The cooperation between those bodies has been extended to human rights education for detainees. 97. As to questions on the terrorist attacks in Andijan (May, 2005), the delegation (Deputy General Prosecutor) pointed out that the group of terrorist had committed a number of military attacks on government and law-enforcement sites followed by murder, seizure of weapons and ammunition, taking hostages, release from the prison dangerous criminals. These events are immediate aggression from international terrorism against the state, which aimed at spreading destabilisation on the Ferghana Valley and Central Asia as a whole. The government had done everything it could to ensure a peaceful resolution and that the use of force by the lawenforcement agencies was provoked by armed terrorists and was of reciprocal nature against armed terrorists’ forcible actions. It rejected statements that the use of force was “and excessive disproportionate” as unfounded, as confirmed by court investigations. It pointed out that the EU experts have visited Uzbekistan in 2006 and 2007 to study case files and meet government officials, converse with those condemned, their lawyers and witnesses of the events. It reaffirmed that the position of Uzbekistan remains strong and is not to be changed. It is not acceptable for Uzbekistan to conduct a so-called “independent international inquiry” into the Andijan events. This issue is closed for Uzbekistan. 98. To questions concerning children’s rights, the delegation drew attention to a bill on the child’s ombudsman, the cooperation with UNICEF to create a juvenile justice system, the drafting of a law on juvenile justice, and the reformulation of the law on juvenile policy. It noted that the law on the rights of the child includes a specific chapter with additional guarantees for socially vulnerable children, such as integration into society, rights to housing, social assistance and education. 99. As to economic, social and cultural rights, the delegation noted the particular attention Uzbekistan gives to such rights, while fully endorsing the universality, indivisibility and inalienability of human rights. It cited figures according to which 54.6 per cent of the State budget for 2009 is allocated to the social sphere, of which one third is allocated to education. 100. With regards to measures in the field of health, the delegation mentioned as examples the state policy and 9 national programmes to protect maternal and child health, laws on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, psychotropic substances, psychiatric health, protection from