United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Sessional/Annual Report of Committee - 17 February 1997. 26. At its eighteenth session, the Committee devoted 15 of the 18 meetings held to the consideration of reports submitted by States parties (see CAT/C/SR.283-297/Add.1). The following reports, listed in the order in which they were received by the Secretary-General, were before the Committee at its eighteenth session: Ukraine (third periodic report) CAT/C/34/Add.1 Mexico (third periodic report) CAT/C/34/Add.2 Denmark (third periodic report) CAT/C/34/Add.3 Paraguay (second periodic report) CAT/C/29/Add.1 Sweden (third periodic report) CAT/C/34/Add.4 Namibia (initial report) CAT/C/28/Add.2 Israel (special report) CAT/C/33/Add.2/Rev.1 27. In accordance with rule 66 of the Committee's rules of procedure, representatives of all the reporting States were invited to attend the meetings of the Committee when their reports were examined. All of the States parties whose reports were considered by the Committee sent representatives to participate in the examination of their respective reports. 28. In accordance with the decision taken by the Committee at its fourth session,1 country rapporteurs and alternate rapporteurs were designated by the Chairman, in consultation with the members of the Committee and the secretariat, for each of the reports submitted by States parties and considered by the Committee at its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions. The list of those reports and the names of the country rapporteurs and their alternates for each of them appear in annex IV. 29. In connection with its consideration of reports, the Committee also had before it the following documents: (a) Status of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and reservations and declarations under the Convention (CAT/C/2/Rev.4); (b) General guidelines regarding the form and contents of initial reports to be submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention (CAT/C/4/Rev.2); (c) General guidelines regarding the form and content of periodic reports to be submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention (CAT/C/14). 30. In accordance with the decision taken by the Committee at its eleventh session,2 the following sections, arranged on a country-by-country basis according to the sequence followed by the Committee in its consideration of the reports, contain references to the reports submitted by the States parties and to the summary records of the meetings of the Committee at which the reports were considered, as well as the text of conclusions and recommendations adopted by the Committee with respect to the reports of States parties considered at its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions. http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/de75e94f920bd0a0802565a600537744?Opendocument (11 of 109)16/10/2006 9:54:12 AM