E/C.12/MDA/CO/2 ensure that children are not prevented from attending school because of poverty in the family. Such efforts should also include the alleviation of the negative impact of indirect and informal costs on the access to education, especially within inadequately funded primary schools in rural areas. The Committee furthermore recommends that the State party take urgent measures to ensure the implementation of inclusive education of children with disabilities, such as: (a) obligatory training of all teachers (beyond special education teachers), (b) requiring individual education plans for all students; (c) availability of assistive devices and support in classrooms, and educational materials and curricula; (e) accessibility of physical school environments; (f) teaching of sign language; and (g) the allocation of sufficient financial resources. Finally, the Committee recommends that the State party ensure access to education for children accompanying their parents and placed in the Migrants Accommodation Centre in Chisinau. 29. The Committee is concerned about the limited availability and accessibility of schooling for Roma children living in remote rural settlements, as well as reported antiRomani discrimination in a number of schools. The Committee is also concerned about the high illiteracy rate among Roma, as well as the low number of Roma with a higher education degree (arts. 13 and 14). The Committee recommends that the State party ensure the availability and accessibility of schooling for Roma children, including through the provision of financial and material support especially targeted at Roma parents, improvement of the school infrastructure in rural areas, the prevention and combating of discrimination against Roma in schools, as well as the development of the school curriculum in the Roma language. 30. The Committee is concerned that State party legislation does not adequately address the ethnic minorities and groups within its territory, and that these groups lack recognition which would allow them to exercise their rights and express their identity and culture (art. 15). The Committee recommends that the State party adopt concrete and effective measures of a legislative and other nature, such as public policies to guarantee the recognition of the rights of ethnic minorities to express their own culture and identity. The Committee also urges the State party to adopt specific programmes and plans in the field of culture to contribute to inter-ethnic dialogue, mutual tolerance and social cohesion. 31. The Committee encourages the State party to proceed to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Covenant, as announced by the State party delegation during the interactive dialogue with the Committee. 32. The Committee requests that the State party disseminate the present concluding observations widely among all levels of society, in particular among State officials, the judiciary and civil society organizations, translate and publicize them as far as possible and inform the Committee of the steps taken to implement them in its next periodic report. It also encourages the State party to engage the national human rights institution, non-governmental organizations and other members of civil society in the process of discussion at the national level prior to the submission of its next periodic report. 33. The Committee requests the State party to submit its third periodic report, taking into account the concerns expressed and recommendations made by the Committee in these concluding observations, and prepared in accordance with the 8