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and to determine whether advisory services or technical assistance by OHCHR would be
appropriate or desirable; conducting with the approval of the Committee follow-up visits to
States parties; and preparing periodic reports for the Committee on his or her activities.
85.
During its fifty-ninth session, the Committee reviewed submissions related to six
cases that are currently monitored through the Committee’s follow-up procedure. The
Committee decided to close the follow-up dialogue with a note of satisfactory resolution
with regard to one communication, No. 336/2008, Khalsa-Singh et al. v. Switzerland. In
that case, the complainant had been granted a residence permit by the State party. The
Committee reviewed the information received with regard to five other cases and decided to
keep the follow-up dialogue open.
86.
During its sixtieth session, the Committee reviewed submissions related to 14 cases
that are currently monitored through the Committee’s follow-up procedure. The Committee
decided to close the follow-up dialogue with a note of satisfactory resolution with regard to
communications No. 15/1994, Khan v. Canada, No. 523/2012, X v. Finland and No.
628/2014, J.N. v. Denmark. The Committee reviewed the information received with regard
to 11 other cases and decided to keep the follow-up dialogue open.
87.
At the time of the adoption of the present report, the Committee had closed the
follow-up dialogue with a note of satisfactory or partially satisfactory resolution with
regard to 55 communications, out of a total of 131 communications where it had found
violations of different provisions of the Convention. Additional information may be found
in documents CAT/C/59/3 and CAT/C/60/4.
VII. Meetings of the Committee in 2017
88.
Further to General Assembly resolution 68/268, the Committee will hold three
regular sessions in 2017: the sixtieth session (18 April-12 May 2017), the sixty-first session
(24 July-11 August 2017) and the sixty-second session (6 November-6 December 2017).
VIII. Adoption of the annual report of the Committee on its
activities
89.
In accordance with article 24 of the Convention, the Committee shall submit an
annual report on its activities to the States parties and to the General Assembly. Since the
Committee holds its third regular session of each calendar year in November, which
coincides with the regular sessions of the General Assembly, it adopts its annual report at
the end of its spring session, for transmission to the General Assembly during the same
calendar year. Accordingly, at its 1541st meeting, held on 12 May 2017 (see
CAT/C/SR.1541), the Committee considered and adopted the report on its activities at the
fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth sessions.
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