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.
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