2.1 promote ratification
of the United Nations International Convention for the Protection
of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) by all Council
of Europe member States and recognition of the full competence of
the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, as well as the integration
into national legislation of all the preventive and enforcement
measures foreseen by the ICPPED;
2.2 provide technical assistance, with the co-operation of
the States that are already parties to the ICPPED, to all interested
States in order to help them implement the ICPPED, on the basis
of an in-depth analysis of the existing legislation of the States
concerned;
2.3 set up, within the Council of Europe, a task force on
enforced disappearances responsible for co-ordinating the aforementioned
activities and monitoring the progress of legal protection against
this crime in the Council of Europe’s member States as well as improving
prevention, with the involvement of civil society;
2.4 pay particular attention to the execution of the judgments
of the European Court of Human Rights relating to cases of enforced
disappearance and to the implementation of the relevant provisional measures
indicated by the European Court of Human Rights;
2.5 encourage member States to impose sanctions on State bodies,
State-controlled groups and individuals that are implicated in cases
of enforced disappearance on the territories of the Council of Europe’s
member States or that are obstructing effective investigation into
such cases;
2.6 support the idea of holding a world conference on the
topic of enforced disappearances, which would also provide an opportunity
for States to announce new ratifications of the ICPPED.
