A/HRC/11/22* 7. Issue (Czech Republic; Switzerland; France) and implement (Czech Republic) a standing invitation to all special procedures (Czech Republic; Switzerland; France); 8. Continue with the policy of openness and cooperation with United Nations human rights mechanisms, and in particular that it consider favourably the requests by the mechanisms of the Council that have already expressed their desire to visit Cuba (Mexico); 9. Provide invitations to other United Nations Special Rapporteurs, in particular those responsible for human rights defenders (United Kingdom), freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of religion or belief, as soon as possible (United Kingdom; Slovakia), and the independence of judges and lawyers (United Kingdom) to visit Cuba; 10. Further open its doors to cooperation with human rights and humanitarian organizations, including by extending an open invitation to Special Procedures and by providing full access to representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Canada), and allow ICRC to have access to prisons and visit prisoners (France); 11. Allow international independent organizations to visit Cuba (United Kingdom); 12. Address the root causes of prostitution by adopting measures enhancing women’s economic opportunities (Austria); 13. Progressively reduce the number of offences liable to death penalty (Italy) and consider subsequent measures towards its complete abolition (Switzerland; Italy); 14. Establish a recurrent system of review of its prisons by United Nations and other relevant international observers, in support of their stated commitment to continue to improve the prison system in Cuba (United Kingdom); 15. Adopt the necessary measures to combat sexual exploitation and adopt a law providing a legal framework to protect minors from sexual exploitation (France); 16. Ensure the right to equality before courts and tribunals, and to a fair trial, as provided for by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ICCPR, and as outlined by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary (Israel), and assure to all citizens the right to be heard by an independent tribunal (Austria); 17. Adopt a law guaranteeing freedom of movement within the territory in accordance with ICCPR, which Cuba has signed, repeal the system of permits to leave the territory, and consequently delete from the criminal code the crime of illegal departure from the territory (France). 132. The recommendations noted in the report in paragraphs 53 (b) and (c), 64 (a), 79 (c) and (d), 96 (b), 105 (b), 106 (a), 109 (b) and (c), and 110 (b) and (c) above did not enjoy the support of Cuba. Cuba rejected those recommendations based on one or more of the following arguments: (a) no people can accept that its right to self-determination and its sovereign right to chose its political, economic, juridical, cultural and social system be questioned; (b) no country can accept any recommendation that contributes to the implementation of a policy designed by a foreign superPower with the objective of destroying the legitimate constitutional order freely chosen by its 28 GE.09-16273