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10.
In accordance with article 2 (1) of the Covenant, which establishes that States parties
undertake to respect and to ensure to all individuals within their territory and subject to
their jurisdiction the rights recognized in the Covenant, the State party is under an
obligation to proceed to a review of the claim of the author, taking into account the State
party’s obligations under the Covenant and the Committee’s present Views. The State party
is also requested to refrain from expelling the author to Greece while his request for asylum
is being reconsidered.52
11.
Bearing in mind that by becoming a party to the Optional Protocol, the State party
has recognized the competence of the Committee to determine whether there has been a
violation of the Covenant and that, pursuant to article 2 of the Covenant, the State party has
undertaken to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the
rights recognized in the Covenant and to provide an effective and enforceable remedy when
it has been determined that a violation has occurred, the Committee wishes to receive from
the State party, within 180 days, information about the measures taken to give effect to the
Committee’s Views. The State party is also requested to publish the Committee’s Views
and to have them widely disseminated in its official language.
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See, for example, Ali and Ali Mohamad v. Denmark, para. 9; and Hussein Ahmed v. Denmark, para.
15.
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