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11. Recalls the importance of the Working Group, the primary role of which is, as described in its
reports, to act as a channel of communication between the families of disappeared persons and the
Governments concerned, with a view to ensuring that sufficiently documented and clearly identified
individual cases are investigated, and to ascertain whether such information falls under its mandate and
contains the required elements, and invites the Group to continue to seek the views and comments of all
concerned, including Member States, in preparing its report;
12. Invites the Working Group to identify obstacles to the realization of the provisions of the
Declaration, to recommend ways of overcoming those obstacles and, in this regard, to continue a dialogue
with Governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;
13. Encourages the Working Group to continue to consider the question of impunity, in close
collaboration with the rapporteur appointed by the Subcommission and with due regard for the relevant
provisions of the Declaration;
14. Requests the Working Group to pay the utmost attention to cases of children subjected to enforced
disappearance and children of disappeared persons and to cooperate closely with the Governments concerned
to search for and identify those children;
15. Appeals to the Governments concerned, in particular those which have not yet replied to the
communications transmitted by the Working Group, to cooperate fully with it and, in particular, to reply
promptly to its requests for information so that, while respecting its working methods based on discretion, it
may perform its strictly humanitarian role;
16. Encourages the Governments concerned to give serious consideration to inviting the Working
Group to visit their countries so as to enable the Group to fulfil its mandate even more effectively;
17. Expresses its profound thanks to the many Governments that have cooperated with the Working
Group and replied to its requests for information and to the Governments that have invited the Group to visit
their countries, asks them to give all necessary attention to the recommendations of the Group, and invites
them to inform the Group of any action they take on those recommendations;
18. Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights to continue to study this question as a matter of
priority and to take any steps it may deem necessary to the pursuit of the task of the Working Group and to
the follow-up of its recommendations when it considers the report to be submitted by the Group to the
Commission at its fifty-fifth session;
19. Renews its requests to the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Working Group with all the
facilities it requires to perform its functions, especially for carrying out missions and following them up;
20. Requests the Secretary-General to keep it informed of the steps he takes to secure the widespread
dissemination and promotion of the Declaration;
21. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to it at its fifty-fifth session a report on the steps
taken to implement the present resolution;
22. Decides to consider the question of enforced disappearances, and in particular the implementation
of the Declaration, at its fifty-fifth session under the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including
alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”.
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