Welcoming the visit of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to Belarus,

We congratulate Ambassador Mayoral on his first visit to selected countries, a visit in which my delegation played an active part.

In that regard, we welcome the visit to New York by a delegation from the International Fact Finding Commission, led by its President, Sir Kenneth Keith.

The Commission welcomes the proposed visit to Colombia in May 2005 of the High Commissioner, at the invitation of the Government of Colombia.

Took note of the report on the field visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic (DP 2005 CRP.7 DP FPA 2005 CRP.1)

The report on the joint field visit to Azerbaijan (DP 2005 CRP.8 DP FPA 2005 CRP.2) will be reissued, for technical reasons.

The Commission welcomes the proposed visit to Colombia in May 2005 of the High Commissioner, at the invitation of the Government of Colombia.

We welcome Mr. Egeland's recent visit to Zimbabwe, as well as the agreement signed by United Nations agencies and the Government of Zimbabwe for food assistance and HIV AIDS programmes.

It was surprising that the international community, which was supposed to be seeking an end to the practice of torture, was not working more actively to secure authorization for the Special Rapporteur to visit the base.

8. Welcomes the recent visit, upon invitation from the Government of the Sudan, of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on internally displaced persons, as well as the commitment of the Government to continue its efforts to address the problem of internally displaced persons

The report on the joint field visit to Azerbaijan (E ICEF 2005 CRP.6) was introduced by the Rapporteur, Mr Carlos Enrique García González, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of El Salvador.

This should be compared to the single visit by two officials from the Turkish Embassy in Tashkent more than 2½ years after the extradition of the applicants in the case examined by the European Court.

Recalling its resolution 2003 14 of 17 April 2003 and 2004 14 of 15 April 2004,

It seemed that in the case of Gibraltar there could be no programme of work, no visit by the Committee, no referral to the International Court of Justice, indeed no right to self determination at all simply because there was a dispute over sovereignty.

15. Welcomes the recent visit to Myanmar undertaken by the high level team of the International Labour Organization, with the objective of assessing the practical implications and impact of measures taken by the Government to eradicate the practice of forced labour and the cooperation that was extended to the team by the Government of Myanmar

During the thorough review, the expert review team shall list all the problems identified and shall notify the Party included in Annex I of the problems identified no later than six weeks after the start of the review or after the in country visit, as appropriate.

Russia s inroads in the region began with former President Vladimir Putin s state visit to Iran in October 2007 the first visit by a Russian leader since Stalin s trip to Teheran in 1943.

Even if the information from the Embassy's tenth visit on 5 March 2003 had ended up in the public domain despite the fact that the proceedings before the Committee were confidential in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Convention and the Committee's own rules of procedure, the damaging effects were no longer considered to be as serious as before.