CAT/OP/MKD/2 United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Distr.: General 26 March 2018 Original: English English, French and Spanish only Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia undertaken from 23 to 29 April 2017: observations and recommendations addressed to the national preventive mechanism Report of the Subcommittee*, ** * In accordance with article 16 (1) of the Optional Protocol, the present report was transmitted confidentially to the national preventive mechanism on 11 January 2018. On 20 March 2018, the national preventive mechanism requested the Subcommittee to publish the report, in accordance with article 16 (2) of the Optional Protocol. ** The annexes to the present document are being circulated in the language of submission only. GE.18-04693(E) 

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