A/66/44 The State party should further develop and strengthen ongoing educational programmes to ensure that all officials, including judges and prosecutors, public inspectors of places of detention, law enforcement personnel, security officers, members of the Village Guards and prison and immigration officials, are fully aware of the provisions of the Convention and the absolute prohibition of torture and that they will be held liable for any actions in contravention of the Convention. (26) The Committee invites the State party to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention and the core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet a party as well as the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court, the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. (27) The State party is requested to disseminate widely the report submitted to the Committee, summary records and the Committee’s concluding observations, in appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and non-governmental organizations. (28) The Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year, follow-up information in response to the Committee’s recommendations contained in paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 11 of the present document. (29) The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report in accordance with its reporting guidelines and to observe the page limit of 40 pages for the treaty-specific document. The Committee also invites the State party to submit an updated common core document in accordance with the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6), and to observe the page limit of 80 pages for the common core document. (30) The State party is invited to submit its next periodic report, which will be the fourth report, by 19 November 2014. 54. Finland (1) The Committee against Torture considered the fifth and sixth combined periodic reports of Finland (CAT/C/FIN/5-6) at its 996th and 999th meetings, held on 18 and 19 May 2011 (CAT/C/SR.996 and 999), and adopted the following concluding observations at its 1011th and 1012th meetings on 27 and 30 May 2011 (CAT/C/SR.1011 and CAT/C/SR.1012). A. Introduction (2) The Committee welcomes the timely submission of the fifth and sixth combined periodic reports of Finland submitted in accordance with the optional reporting procedure of the Committee consisting of replies by the State party to the list of issues (CAT/C/FIN/Q/5-6) submitted by the Committee. The Committee expresses its appreciation to the State party for agreeing to report under this new procedure which facilitates the cooperation between the State party and the Committee. The Committee appreciates that the replies to the list of issues were submitted within the requested deadline. (3) The Committee also appreciated the open and constructive dialogue with the State party’s high-level multisectoral delegation, as well as the additional information and explanations provided by the delegation to the Committee. The Committee thanks the delegation for its clear, straightforward and detailed answers to the questions raised by Committee members. 74 GE.11-45568

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