A/RES/52/147 Page 7 36. Reaffirms, as recommended previously by the Special Rapporteur, that major reconstruction aid must be made conditional on demonstrated respect for human rights, emphasizes, in that context, the necessity of cooperation with the International Tribunal, and welcomes in this regard the conclusions of the Ministerial Meetings of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council and the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina held in Paris on 14 November 199616 and Sintra, Portugal, on 30 May 1997;14 37. Welcomes the commitments of the international community for post-war reconstruction and development assistance, and encourages the expansion of that assistance, while noting that such assistance should be conditioned on full compliance by the parties with the agreements that have been made; 38. Welcomes also the efforts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the European Community Monitoring Mission and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in monitoring and strengthening respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region, and welcomes the Republic of Croatia's adherence to, and firm and formal commitment to abide by, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its additional protocols,17 the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,18 the European Charter of Local Self-Government,19 the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities20 and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages;21 39. Calls for an immediate end to illegal and/or hidden detention by all parties, and requests that the Special Rapporteur investigate allegations of hidden detainees; 40. Calls upon the parties to the Peace Agreement to take immediate steps to determine the identity, the whereabouts and the fate of missing persons, inter alia, near Srebrenica, Zepa, Prijedor, Sanski Most and Vukovar, including through close cooperation with the International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia, other international humanitarian organizations and independent experts, the Special Rapporteur, the Working Group on the Process for Tracing Persons Unaccounted For, chaired by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Expert Group on Exhumation and Missing Persons, chaired by the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina, and stresses the importance of coordinating work in this area; 41. Encourages all Governments to respond favourably to the appeals for voluntary contributions for the benefit of the Commission on Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Commission for 16 Ibid., Fifty-first Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1996, document S/1996/968, appendix. 17 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 213, No. 2889, A/33/417, annex II, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1985/42, E/CN.4/1987/20 and Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 146. 18 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1561, No. 27161. 19 Ibid., vol. 1525, No. 26457. 20 Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 157. 21 Ibid., No. 148. /...