CRC/C/GEO/CO/3 page 2 4. The Committee also welcomes the ratification/accession by the State party to: (a) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, on 28 June 2005; (b) The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, on 14 March 2007; (c) The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, on 4 September 2006; (d) The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, on 22 December 2005; (e) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, on 9 August 2005; and (f) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, on 28 June 2002; C. Factors and difficulties impeding the implementation of the Convention 5. The Committee notes that the de facto lack of control by the State party over Abkhazia and South Ossetia/Tskhinvali region is a serious obstacle for the State party in the implementation of the Convention in those regions. D. Principal areas of concern and recommendations 1. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, paragraph 6 of the Convention) Committee’s previous recommendations 6. The Committee notes that several concerns and recommendations made upon the consideration of the State party’s second periodic report (CRC/C/15/Add.222) have been addressed. However, it regrets that some of its concerns and recommendations have been insufficiently or only partly addressed, including those related to: legislation; allocation of resources; reduction of poverty; social security and services; internally displaced children; street children; and juvenile justice. 7. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations contained in the concluding observations on the second periodic report that have not yet been implemented or sufficiently implemented and to provide adequate follow-up to the recommendations contained in the present concluding observations on the third periodic report.