A/68/44 (28) The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 23 November 2014, followup information in response to the Committee’s recommendations related to (a) ensuring or strengthening legal safeguards for persons detained, (b) conducting, prompt, impartial and effective investigations, (c) prosecuting suspects and sanctioning perpetrators of torture or ill-treatment, and (d) violence against women, as contained in paragraphs 10, 14 and 19 of the present concluding observations. (29) The State party is invited to submit its next report, which will be the third periodic report, by 23 November 2016. To that purpose, the Committee invites the State party to accept, by 23 November 2013, to report under its optional reporting procedure, consisting in the transmittal, by the Committee to the State party, of a list of issues prior to the submission of the report. The State party’s response to this list of issues will constitute, under article 19 of the Convention, its next periodic report. 64. Russian Federation (1) The Committee against Torture considered the fifth periodic report of the Russian Federation (CAT/C/RUS/5) at its 1112th and 1115th meetings, held on 9 and 12 November 2012 (CAT/C/SR.1112 and CAT/C/SR.1115), and adopted the following concluding observations at its 1130th meeting, held on 22 November 2012 (CAT/C/SR.1130). A. Introduction (2) The Committee welcomes the submission of the fifth periodic report of the Russian Federation, in response to the list of issues prior to reporting (CAT/C/RUS/Q/5). The Committee expresses its appreciation to the State party for accepting the optional reporting procedure and for submitting its periodic report under this, which improves the cooperation between the State party and the Committee and focuses the examination of the report as well as the dialogue with the delegation. (3) The Committee also appreciates the open dialogue it had with the State party’s highlevel delegation and the additional information supplied during the consideration of the report, but regrets that some of its questions remained unanswered. B. Positive aspects (4) The Committee welcomes the fact that, since the consideration of the fourth periodic report, the State party has ratified or acceded to the following international and regional instruments: (a) The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on children in armed conflict, in 2008; (b) The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in 2012; (c) Protocol No. 14 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights), which resulted in the entry into force of the Protocol in 2010; (d) The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention, in 2004. (5) The Committee welcomes the information provided concerning various legislative, administrative, institutional and practical measures taken to improve the promotion and protection of human rights in the State party since the examination of the fourth periodic report, notably: GE.13-46043 57