E/CN.4/1988/17/Add.l page 7 that the implications of requests for assitance from individual governments better to guarantee civil and political rights should be a matter for reflection in the Commission on Human Rights. Condemnation of systematic violations of human rights are certainly called for in quite a few cases. However, the Commission, whose task it is to promote respect for human rights, would only be doing half its work if it turned a deaf ear to a government which asked the international community to help it better to fulfil its commitment to guarantee respect for human rights.