A/HRC/24/5 Rights Council special procedures. It stated that international cooperation, from other countries and partner organizations, including OHCHR, would be indispensable to ensure that that it could continue to plan and implement activities within the framework of the promotion and protection of human rights. 114. Cape Verde stated that it had made great efforts and achieved significant progress in the implementation of recommendations and the fulfilment of its international commitments. Though it wished to do more it was conscious that the country’s resource constraints were, however, an obstacle to the implementation of human rights policies with financial implications. It thanked the international community for its cooperation with Cape Verde and stated that the action of the Human Rights Council and of the Working Group would continue to be an important incentive and support. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations** 115. The recommendations formulated during the interactive dialogue/listed below enjoy the support of Cape Verde: 115.1. Step up efforts to ensure ratification of international instruments relating to human rights to which it is not yet a party (Burkina Faso); 115.2. Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED) (Brazil); 115.3. Complete the ratification process of the CPED signed in 2007 (France); 115.4. Continue its efforts to ratify the following conventions: CPED and OP-CAT (Argentina);1 115.5. Proceed with the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OP-CAT) (Montenegro); 115.6. Ratify the OP-CAT (Togo); 115.7. Ratify the OP-CAT and work towards the establishment of a national preventive mechanism in line with the Optional Protocol (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); 115.8. Complete the common core of its international obligations on human rights with the ratification of CPED, OP-CAT and the Optional Protocol to CRPD (Spain); 115.9. Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR as soon as possible (Portugal); 115.10. Ratify the Optional Protocol to ICESCR (Spain); 115.11. Ratify the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Montenegro); 115.12. Ratify the optional protocols to the treaties to which it is a Contracting Party in order to recognize the competence of Treaty Bodies in complaints, inquiry and urgent action procedures (Costa Rica); ** Conclusions and recommendations have not been edited. 1 The recommendation as read during the interactive dialogue: “Continue its efforts to ratify the following conventions: CPED, CRPD and OP-CAT (Argentina)”; 15