the contents tor (a) information presented in the initial report, if anyr (b) questions on which answers were still pending: (c) subsequent reports; and (d) supplementary statistiaal information from other United Nations entities. The analysis should also indioate other reports on the country that were available, prepared for other human rights treaty bodies or in response to conventions of specialized agencies of the United Nations. It should also contain, where appropriate, information specifically provided by the specialized agencies oE tire United Nations, including extracts from statistfos of UNICEF. 369. The Committee decided that analyses of selected articles of the Convention, as well as of special issues related to the formulation of general recommendations and suggestions, should be prepared by the secretariat as offiaial pre-session doouments for general distribution and included in the draft provisional agenda for the following session of the Committee, which would be approved at the end of each session. It requested that those analyses should be widely distributed to Governments and non-governmental organizations in accordqnpe with United Bat-ion-6 procedures. 370. It further decided, in conformity with existing general recommendations, that if States parties whose reports were overdue by the conclusion of the tenth session so wished, they could submit a combined report to the Committee. In aases where the report dua was an initial one, it was decided that the combined report should be comprehensive, covering all aspects of the Convention as well as the general recommendations of the Committee, and that it should describe the current situation of women and seek to show the changes that had occurred since the Convention had entered into force in the country concerned, as well as the obstacles encountered in its implementation. Such reports should be numbered by the secretariat in a way that facilitated the identification of reports that were being combined. 371. The Committee decided to bring to the attention of the Sixth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, to take place in 1992, the situation with regard to reports that were overdue , and it encouraged States parties whose reports were overdue to submit them. 312. It endorsed the steps being taken by the secretariat to offer technical assistance to States parties whose reports were overdue, using resources from the regular programme of technical cooperation of the United Nations, and encouraged States parties to take advantage of that possibility as a means of strengthening the implementation of the Convention and of national machinery for the advancement of women, The possibility of obtaining such assistance should be mentioned by the eecretariat in its invitation to a Government of a developing country to submit its report. 373. The Committee decided to provide, under item 6 of its agenda, opportunities for specialists from the specfalized agencies and other United Nations bodies to present information related to specific articles the Convention or to issues being considered for general recommendations suggestions to the Committee in plenary. Furthermore, when appropriate, persons should be invited to participate as resource persons in the work the Working Groups. --VI- of and such of

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