393. The Committee’s role in identifying trends was also underscored was noted that it had examined over 66 reports by §tates parties. It that the erarninotion of trends should help to indicate areas in which recommendations were desirable. It was noted that its recommendations becoming increasingly specific and that it might also be important to and update earlier recommendations and tlahe general guidelines for the preparation of reports. and it was felt general were review 394. Finally, the need to ensure that the work of the Committee was widely disseminated was stressed. The Committee requested that the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, as part of its programmes on human rights activities and the advancement of women, prepare an information brochure containing the general recommendations adopted by the Committee and disseminate it. The need to inters& the mass media in the work of the Committee was also stressed. 395. The Committee welcomed the initiative taken by the Chairman in suggesting that the Committee should undertake the present assessment and decided to continue the progedure at subsequent sessions. 396. In sessions chap. V, approved accordance with its decision to approve at the end of each of its the draft provisional agenda for the following session (see para. 369). the draft provisional agenda for the eleventh session (for the text, see chap. VII of the present report). -a3- was