Date on which the
report was due
State party
Third periodic reports (cont.)
France
Philippines
Russian Federation
Senegal
Uganda
Uruguay
Austria
Luxembourg
Togo
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Turkey
Tunisia
Chile
Australia
Algeria
Brazil
Guinea
New Zealand
Somalia
Malta
Germany
Liechtenstein
Romania
25 June 1996
25 June 1996
25 June 1996
25 June 1996
25 June 1996
25 June 1996
27 August 1996
28 October 1996
17 December 1996
6 January 1997
28 April 1997
17 June 1997
31 August 1997
22 October 1997
29 October 1997
6 September 1998
11 October 1998
27 October 1998
8 November 1998
8 January 1999
22 February 1999
12 October 1999
30 October 1999
1 December 1999
16 January 2000
30.
The Committee expressed concern at the number of States parties which did not comply with their
reporting obligations. With regard, in particular, to States parties whose reports were more than four years
overdue, the Committee deplored that, in spite of several reminders sent by the Secretary-General and letters
or other messages of its Chairman to their respective Ministers for Foreign Affairs, those States parties
continued not to comply with the obligations they had freely assumed under the Convention. The Committee
stressed that it had the duty to monitor the Convention and that the non-compliance of a State party with its
reporting obligations constituted an infringement of the provisions of the Convention.
31.
In this connection, the Committee decided to continue its practice of making available lists of States
parties whose reports are overdue during the press conferences that the Committee usually holds at the end of
each session.
32.
Furthermore, the Committee endorsed the recommendation made by the eleventh meeting of
chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies (31 May-4 June 1999) that a document outlining the reporting
history of States parties to human rights treaties, including the Convention, be produced on an annual basis to
remind States parties of their reporting obligations. The document will replace the system of sending reminders
by note verbale.
33.
The status of submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention as at 19 May
2000, the closing date of the twenty-fourth session of the Committee, appears in annex VI to the present report.
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