27. At the invitation of the Chairman, the members of the delegation of Ukraine resumed their places at the Committee table.
28. Mr. YAKOVLEV (Country Rapporteur) read out the following conclusions and recommendations of the Committee, in Russian:
law a procedure for providing redress for injury caused to victims of torture (including compensation for moral injury) and to define the arrangements, amount and conditions for such compensation."
29. Mrs. PAVLIKOVSKA (Ukraine) thanked the members of the Committee for the attention they had given to her country's report. She pointed out, however, that the Committee had apparently not taken into account, in formulating some of its recommendations, the supplementary information provided orally by the Ukrainian delegation, especially on the machinery for providing redress for physical and mental injury to victims of torture. Regarding the lack of statistical information, she drew the Committee's attention to paragraphs 20, 21 and 22 of the report which indicated the number of complaints received by the Ministry of Internal Affairs concerning various kinds of irregularity,
the number of officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs convicted for offences committed in the performance of their duties and the nature of the convictions. Precise data had also been given, in the oral presentation, regarding the publicity given to the Convention and the possibility for accused persons and prisoners to consult with a lawyer. However, the observations made by the Committee would be given due consideration by the Ukrainian authorities and would undoubtedly contribute to the development of democracy in Ukraine.
30. Mr. YAKOVLEV (Country Rapporteur) said that the information provided by the Ukrainian delegation regarding compensation for victims concerned persons who had suffered as a result of errors committed during investigations rather than actual victims of torture, which was perhaps partly attributable to the fact that cases of torture were not recorded as a specific category. He added that the sole purpose of the Committee's recommendations was to assist the country to set high standards for the protection of human rights.
31. The CHAIRMAN thanked the delegation of Ukraine for its frank cooperation with the Committee.
32. The delegation of Ukraine withdrew.