A/HRC/RES/45/2 as the technical cooperation provided for the elaboration of the National Human Rights Action Plan and the increased access by the Office of the High Commissioner to detention facilities in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in coordination with the Government, Recognizing the importance of the technical assistance provided by the Office of the High Commissioner regarding the initiation of cooperation with the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture to enhance its capacity to effectively prevent cases of torture, and to establish a national mechanism for the presentation of reports and to follow up on the recommendations emanating from international human rights mechanisms, and to establish a dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Noting the progress made by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in terms of issuing invitations to various special procedures of the Human Rights Council to visit the country, 1. Takes note of the most recent reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, covering the period from June 2019 to May 2020,1 and of other reports by the mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and the United Nations treaty bodies; 2. Calls upon the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to implement the recommendations contained in the reports of the High Commissioner submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-first and forty-fourth sessions;2 3. Welcomes the establishment of a permanent presence of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the terms established in the memorandum of understanding signed on 20 September 2019 and renewed on 14 September 2020, including the unlimited access granted by the Government to all regions and detention centres and the strengthening of the judicial system and institutional mechanisms for the protection of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; 4. Calls upon the Venezuelan authorities to cooperate with the special procedures and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council in the fulfilment of their respective mandates, to extend an invitation to mandate holders, as agreed upon with the Office of the High Commissioner, and to ensure that all individuals can communicate with the United Nations without fear of reprisal, intimidation or attack; 5. Encourages the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to extend an invitation to a third special procedure mandate holder in 2020 in order to comply with the calendar of 10 visits in two years committed to during the visit in June 2019 of the High Commissioner; 6. Notes the efforts of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to implement the recommendations accepted during the second cycle of the universal periodic review and encourages the State to continue to collaborate with the mechanism; 7. Recalls the United Nations humanitarian response plan for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela launched in August 2019, and encourages the granting of a United Nations-led response, in agreement with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, to the humanitarian situation, including by allowing access for humanitarian actors, facilitating the entry of the World Food Programme and ensuring the protection of humanitarian workers, and calls upon the international community, States and United Nations agencies to support this important initiative, as the humanitarian situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela remains one of the least funded in the world; 8. Acknowledges the progress made in, as well as the challenges and obstacles remaining to, realizing human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, calls upon the Government to fulfil its obligations in accordance with international human rights law and to fully cooperate with and to continue its commitment to the Office of the High Commissioner, the special procedures and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and the treaty bodies, and calls upon States and international organizations to support the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in this regard; 1 2 A/HRC/44/20 and A/HRC/44/54. A/HRC/41/18 and A/HRC/44/20. 3