A/HRC/13/17 Page 23 99. 11. Strengthen efforts made to address the causes of ethnic conflicts on its territory and take necessary measures to prevent and sanction the forced recruitment of minors under the age of 18 (Mexico); 12. Adopt appropriate measures to disseminate widely and ensure full observance of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (Norway). The following recommendations did not enjoy the support of Ethiopia: 1. Sign (Spain) and ratify (Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland)/ become party to (Canada) the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty; 2. Consider signing and/or ratifying (Argentina)/ratify (Switzerland) the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; 3. Further its commitment to human rights by becoming a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Canada); 4. Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, including accession to the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court(Slovakia); 5. Open regional offices of the EHRC, starting with an office in Jijiga (United Kingdom); 6. Issue an open-ended and standing invitation to all special procedures; and more specifically respond positively to the requests for visits by the Special Rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and on the right to education, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Special Rapporteurs on torture and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Spain); 7. Consider extending a standing invitation to all special procedures of the Human Rights Council (Latvia); 8. Issue a standing invitation for all special procedures and respond positively to all outstanding invitations (Slovenia); 9. Extend a standing invitation to all United Nations special procedures mandateholders (Ireland); 10. Issue a standing invitation to all United Nations special procedures and respond favourably to all outstanding requests (Canada);

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