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attempt against the President of Turkmenistan in November 2002, as well as the
failure of the Turkmen authorities to allow appropriate independent bodies, family
members and lawyers access to those convicted, or to provide any kind of evidence
to dispel rumours that some of those convicted have died in detention;
(k) Arbitrary or unlawful interference with individuals’ privacy, family,
home or correspondence and violations of the freedom to leave one’s country;
(l) Reported instances of hate speech against national and ethnic minorities,
including statements attributed to high-ranking government officials and public
figures supporting an approach to Turkmen ethnic purity, as noted in the concluding
observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of
August 2005;
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Urges the Government of Turkmenistan:
(a) To ensure full respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms
and, in this regard, to implement fully the measures set out in General Assembly
resolutions 58/194 and 59/206 and Commission on Human Rights resolutions
2003/11 and 2004/12;
(b) To work closely with the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights with regard to the areas of concern and to
cooperate fully with all the mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights, in
particular to consider favourably requests made by a number of special rapporteurs
of the Commission to visit the country, as recalled in the report of the SecretaryGeneral,3 and with all the relevant United Nations treaty bodies;
(c) To implement fully the recommendations outlined in the report of the
Rapporteur of the Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and to work constructively with the various institutions of
the Organization, and to facilitate further visits of the Organization’s Chairman-inOffice as well as his Personal Envoy for participating States in Central Asia, and of
the Organization’s High Commissioner on National Minorities;
(d) To follow through on the presentation of the Government of
Turkmenistan to the Commission on Human Rights in April 2004 and the meetings
of the Government of Turkmenistan with the International Committee of the Red
Cross in 2005 by finalizing an agreement allowing the Committee to visit
Turkmen prisons with full and repeated access to all places of detention in
accordance with the usual modalities for that organization, and by providing
international monitors, lawyers and relatives with full and repeated access to all
those in detention, including those convicted of involvement in the coup attempt
of 25 November 2002;
(e) To respect the right of everyone to freedom of thought, conscience,
religion or belief, whether a member of a religious group or not, and to cease the
harassment, detention and persecution of members of religious minorities, whether
registered or unregistered;
(f) To bring laws and practices governing registration of public associations,
including non-governmental organizations, into line with the standards of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and to enable nongovernmental organizations, particularly human rights organizations, and other civil
society actors, including independent media, to carry out their activities without
hindrance;
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