E/C.12/MNE/CO/1
United Nations
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: General
15 December 2014
Original: English
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations on the initial report of Montenegro*
1.
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considered the initial
report of Montenegro on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/MNE/1) at its 48th, 49th and 50th meetings
(E/C.12/2014/SR.48–50), held on 13 and 14 November 2014, and adopted, at its
70th meeting, held on 28 November 2014, the following concluding observations.
A.
Introduction
2.
The Committee welcomes the submission of the initial report of Montenegro
(E/C.12/MNE/1), as well as its common core document submitted in September 2012
(HRI/CORE/MNE/2012). The Committee also appreciates the written replies to its list of
issues (E/C.12/MNE/Q/1/Add.1) as well as the frank and constructive dialogue with the
State party’s multisectoral delegation.
B.
Positive aspects
3.
The Committee welcomes the State party’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 24 September 2013.
4.
The Committee also welcomes the ratification by the State party of the following
international human rights instruments:
(a)
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a
communications procedure, on 24 September 2013;
(b)
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, on 5 December 2013;
(c)
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance, on 20 September 2011;
(d)
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional
Protocol, on 2 November 2009;
* Adopted by the Committee at its fifty-third session (10–28 November 2014).
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