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(b) To work closely with the Office of the 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 and 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, in particular following the visit of the Personal Envoy of the
Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Participating States in Central Asia, to
work towards implementation of those recommendations and to make the necessary
arrangements to facilitate fully a visit by the High Commissioner on National
Minorities of the Organization by the end of 2004;
(d)
To release immediately and unconditionally all prisoners of conscience;
(e) To give real substance to the May 2004 offer of the Government of
Turkmenistan for interested representatives of the international community to visit
Turkmen prisons by providing appropriate independent bodies, including the
International Committee of the Red Cross, with full access to all places of detention
in accordance with the usual modalities for those organizations and ensuring that
lawyers and relatives have full and repeated access to all those in detention,
including those convicted of involvement in the attempted coup d’état of
25 November 2002;
(f) To ensure that the forthcoming parliamentary elections will be held
consistent with the commitments of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe and other international standards for democratic elections;
(g) To remove the remaining restrictions on the activities of public
associations, including non-governmental organizations, and to enable those
organizations, in particular human rights organizations, and other civil society
actors to carry out their activities without hindrance, building upon the amendment
of 2 November 2004 to the Criminal Code of Turkmenistan abolishing criminal
penalties for unregistered activities of public associations;
Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General
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Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution.
74th plenary meeting
20 December 2004
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