III. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONVENTION Action taken by the Committee to ensure the submission of reports 18. The Committee, at its 230th, 240th, 241st, 244th, 245th and 260th meetings, held on 15, 22 and 24 November 1995, and 30 April and 9 May 1996, considered the status of submission of reports under article 19 of the Convention. The Committee had before it the following documents: (a) Notes by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of States parties that were due from 1988 to 1996 (CAT/C/5, 7, 9, 12, 16/Rev.1, 21/Rev.1, 24, 28/Rev.1 and 32/Rev.2); (b) Notes by the Secretary-General concerning second periodic reports that were due from 1992 to 1996 (CAT/C/17, 20/Rev.1, 25, 29 and 33); (c) A note by the Secretary-General concerning third periodic reports that were due in 1996 (CAT/C/34). 19. The Committee was informed that, in addition to the 10 reports that were scheduled for consideration by the Committee at its fifteenth and sixteenth sessions (see paras. 26 and 28 below), the Secretary-General had received the initial report of the Republic of Korea (CAT/C/32/Add.1) and the second periodic reports of Algeria (CAT/C/25/Add.8), Poland (CAT/C/25/Add.9), the Russian Federation (CAT/C/17/Add.15) and Uruguay (CAT/C/17/Add.16). He had also received additional information requested by the Committee from Italy (fifteenth session), the Netherlands (fourteenth session) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (fifteenth session) during the Committee’s consideration of their respective reports. 20. The Committee was also informed that the revised version of the initial report of Belize requested for 10 March 1994 by the Committee at its eleventh session, had not yet been received in spite of two reminders sent by the Secretary-General in June 1994 and 1995 and a letter that the Chairman of the Committee addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Economic Development of Belize on 20 November 1995. 21. In addition, the Committee at its fifteenth and sixteenth sessions was informed about the reminders that had been sent by the Secretary-General to States parties whose reports were overdue and letters that the Chairman of the Committee, at its request, had addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of those States parties whose reports were more than three years overdue. The situation with regard to overdue reports as at 10 May 1996 was as follows: -5-