A/65/44 Rapporteur for follow-up with regard to the concluding observations to the Republic of Moldova (CAT/C/CR/30/7). (3) The Committee notes with satisfaction the constructive dialogue held with the highlevel delegation of the State party. (4) The Committee also notes the State party’s assertion that it cannot be held responsible for violations of human rights committed on the territory over which it “does not exercise a real jurisdiction”, as is the case with the left bank of the Dniester river (HRI/CORE/1/Add.114, paras. 33–34). The Committee nonetheless reiterates that the State party has an ongoing obligation to ensure that acts of torture and other forms of illtreatment are prohibited in all parts of its territory. B. Positive aspects (5) The Committee welcomes the fact that, in the period since its consideration of the initial report, the State party has ratified or acceded to the following international and regional instruments: (a) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, in 2006; (b) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, in 2004; (c) The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, in 2005; (d) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, in 2006; (e) The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, in 2006; (f) The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, in 2006; (g) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, in 2007; (h) The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in 2008. (6) The Committee welcomes the ongoing efforts of the State party to reform its legislation in order to ensure better protection of human rights, including the right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in particular: (a) The revision of the Criminal Code and, in particular, the inclusion of article 309/1, which brings the State party’s legislation into line with article 1 of the Convention against Torture with regard to the definition of torture; (b) The inclusion in the new Code of Criminal Procedure of article 94, paragraph 1, which makes statements obtained through the use of torture inadmissible as evidence, and the inclusion of section 3/1 to article 10, which states that the burden of proof in cases of torture rests with the institution in which the detainee was held and which must disprove the act of torture; 36 GE.10-44721