A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 103 Para 76. Country Georgia Date 05/10/07 Type AL Mandate TOR Allegations transmitted Government response prévues à l’article 689-1 toute personne coupable de tortures au sens de l’article 1er de la convention ». A la lumière de différents rapports très détaillés et de mémorandums engageant directement la responsabilité de M. Rumsfeld dans les crimes de torture et autres traitements inhumains et dégradants sur des détenus de Guantanamo, d’Abu Ghraib et d’ailleurs, les Rapporteurs spéciaux ont exprimé leur préoccupation qu‘aucune mesure n’ait été prise par le Procureur pour s’assurer que M. Rumsfeld ne quitte le territoire français. The Government intends to include into this action plan draft guidelines for the use of “diplomatic assurances” against torture in its anti-torture action plan. The Special Rapporteur has stated (A/60/316) that “diplomatic assurances are unreliable and ineffective in the protection against torture and ill-treatment: such assurances are sought usually from States where the practice of torture is systematic; post-return monitoring mechanisms have proven to be no guarantee against torture; diplomatic assurances are not legally binding, therefore they carry no legal effect and no accountability if breached; and the person whom the assurances aim to protect has no recourse if the assurances are violated.” He has indicated “that States cannot resort to diplomatic assurances as a safeguard against torture and illtreatment where there are substantial grounds for believing that a person would be in danger of being subjected to torture or ill-treatment upon return” and called “on Governments to observe By letter dated 6/12/07, the Government replied that it is fully committed to the implementation of the absolute prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, crystallized as a ius cogens norm of international law and as entrenched in the Constitution of Georgia. It considers the elaboration of the antitorture action plan by the inter-agency Council on the Coordination of the Measures Directed against Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment an effective tool to fulfil these obligations. Whereas guidelines on diplomatic assurances where included in the initial version of the action plan in accordance with the respective recommendations of the Committee against Torture (CAT/C/GEO/CO/3, 25 July 2006, para. 11), they were deleted after deliberation in the Council taking into account the opposition of nongovernmental organizations. As regards the suggestions of the OHCHR Office in Tbilisi in relation to the need for the anti-torture plan to cover all places of detention, improve healthcare