40 | Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic 64. 65. requested a 60-day extension. 49 The IACHR granted an extension until December 21, 2015, date in which the Dominican State submitted its observations to the present report. 50 According to its Rules of Procedure, after the Commission had reviewed the State’s observations, it proceeded to include those that were deemed relevant into the report. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will continue to closely monitor the situation in the Dominican Republic as regards the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons subject to its jurisdiction, and will pay particular attention to the measures that the State adopts to act on the recommendations made in this report. The IACHR is therefore urging the State, civil society organizations, and human rights defenders to avail themselves of the various mechanisms that the Inter-American System provides so as to be able to continue to deliver any and all information they deem relevant regarding compliance with the Commission’s recommendations and the human rights situation in the Dominican Republic. In furtherance of the Commission’s functions as set under Article 106 of the Charter of the Organization of American States and Article 41 of the American Convention on Human Rights, the IACHR reiterates its willingness to cooperate with the Dominican State in correcting the serious problems identified that beset Dominican persons of Haitian descent with regard to their rights to nationality, identity, equality and nondiscrimination, other rights and related issues, and the problems created by the Constitutional Court’s judgment TC/0168/13, with the purpose of guaranteeing that all persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Dominican State are able to effectively enjoy and exercise their human rights. E. Observations of the Dominican Republic on the report 66. In its observations to the draft of this report, the Dominican State thanked the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights for giving it the opportunity to submit its observations prior to publication of the present report. The State also thanked the IACHR for recognizing, in its report, the policies, standards, and initiatives that the Dominican Government has been promoting to consolidate the protection of human rights of all persons under the State’s jurisdiction. 51 67. At the same time, the Government of the Dominican Republic repeated “its firm commitment to the protection, guarantee, and exercise of human rights of all citizens living in the national territory, including the rights of the descendants born in the country of foreign parents, which is evident in the various actions and efforts taken 49 Dominican Republic, Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States. Note MP-RD-OEA 1350-15: Document on the “Draft Report of the Situation of Human Rights in the Dominican Republic,” December 14, 2015. [Document in the Commission’s files]. Dominican Republic, Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States. Note MP-RD-OEA 1395-15. December 21, 2015. Dominican Republic, Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States. Note MP-RD-OEA 1395-15. December 21, 2015, p. 2. 50 51 Organization of American States | OAS