A/RES/52/144 Page 3 3. Calls upon the Government of Nigeria: (a) To ensure urgently the observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including by respecting the right to life, by releasing all political prisoners, including those detained in connection with the 1993 presidential elections, among them Chief M. K. O. Abiola, trade union leaders, human rights advocates and journalists currently detained, by improving conditions of detention and by guaranteeing freedom of the press, freedom of opinion and association and respect for the rights of individuals, including persons belonging to minorities; (b) To ensure that all trials are held fairly and promptly and in strict conformity with international human rights standards; (c) To abide by its freely undertaken obligations under the International Covenants on Human Rights and other human rights instruments, and notes with interest, in this regard, the recommendations of the Human Rights Committee to the Government of Nigeria;7 (d) To take concrete and credible steps to restore democratic government without delay, to end rule by decree and to permit an observer presence during transition, as recommended by the United Nations fact-finding mission; (e) To ensure the independence of the National Human Rights Commission, including in its investigations of human rights abuses; (f) To implement fully its interim undertakings to the Secretary-General without further delay and to respond in full to the recommendations of the mission sent to Nigeria by the Secretary-General; (g) To implement its obligations under the Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 (No.87), of the International Labour Organization, while noting the special paragraph in the report of the International Labour Conference Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, as adopted by the International Labour Conference at its 85th session, on Nigeria's failure to comply with that Convention; (h) To cooperate fully with the Commission on Human Rights and its mechanisms; 4. Decides to consider this question at its fifty-third session under the item entitled "Human rights questions". 70th plenary meeting 12 December 1997 7 CCPR/C/79/Add.65.