PART 1: Overview of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee Against Torture Norway 13 September 1972 9 July 1986 Poland 7 November 1991 12 May 1993 Portugal 3 May 1983 9 February 1989 Republic of Moldova 23 January 2008 2 September 2011 Romania 20 July 1993 – Russian Federation 1 October 1991 1 October 1991 San Marino 18 October 1985 – Serbia 6 September 2001 12 March 2001 Slovakia 28 May 1993 17 March 1995 Slovenia 16 July 1993 16 July 1993 Spain 25 January 1985 21 October 1987 Sweden 6 December 1971 8 January 1986 Switzerland – 2 December 1986 Tajikistan 4 January 1999 – Republic of Macedonia 12 December 1994 – Turkey 24 November 2006 2 August 1988 Turkmenistan May 1997 – Ukraine 25 July 1991 12 September 2003 Uzbekistan 28 September 1995 – 45