A/HRC/8/34 Page 15 come up with procedural measures that would expedite the processes. One initiative that Argentina has taken is to request the Consejo de la Magistratura to undertake an investigation into procedural delays, and it has taken up this task. 60. To conclude, the representative of Argentina stressed the importance of the new Universal Periodic Review mechanism of the Human Rights Council and expressed its commitment to establish a follow-up mechanism and the broad dissemination of the procedure in the country, as well as to reporting periodically to allow for the assessment of the implementation of the recommendations and voluntary commitments. 61. Argentina reaffirmed as a commitment of the State the proposals made before the high level segment of the Human Rights Council by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to promote the holding of a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York to encourage the prompt ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. At the same time, Argentina has initiated the process for the recognition of the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearance to examine individual and inter-State communications. Similarly, Argentina is committed to recognize the competence of the Committee of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. Argentina is also interested in promoting an international and regional declaration by multilateral organs on the right to memory and truth. In particular, Argentina commits itself to put in practise the mechanism of the Optional Protocol of CAT, and to continue implementing the National Plan to Combat Discrimination in all aspects and to launch the second stage of the preparatory work for a National Human Rights Plan. 62. Argentina regretted not being able to inform about the application of the instruments of human rights to which it is a State party in the totality of its national territory, which includes the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)∗, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and noted that these are illegally occupied by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and are the subject of a dispute of sovereignty between both countries as recognized by several resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly as well as the Committee on Decolonization that urge the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume negotiation with a view to arriving as soon as possible at a peaceful and lasting solution to the dispute. For this reason, Argentina noted that on all occasions in which the United Kingdom has pretended to extend the application of the international instruments, as mentioned in paragraph 16 of document A/HRC/WG.6/1/GBR/1 to the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), South Georgia and South Sandwich Island, Argentina has rejected this. Argentina has therefore also addressed the note 106/08 of 10 April 2008 to the President of the Human Rights Council rejecting the inclusion of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), South Georgia and South Sandwich Island in paragraph 8 of the above-mentioned report presented by the United Kingdom within the framework of the UPR. 63. The representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland stated that he does not believe that the Human Rights Council or the UPR Working Group was the appropriate forum for the comments made by the delegation of Argentina on 16 April 2008 regarding sovereignty on the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). The United Kingdom has no doubts about its sovereignty over the British Antarctic Territory, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), South Georgia ∗ A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (see ST/CS/SER.A/42).