Chapter IV CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONVENTION 34. At its twenty-third and twenty-fourth sessions, the Committee considered reports submitted by 15 States parties, under article 19, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The following reports, listed in the order in which they had been received by the Secretary-General, were before the Committee at its twenty-third session: Malta: second periodic report CAT/C/29/Add.6 Austria: second periodic report CAT/C/17/Add.21 Finland: third periodic report CAT/C/44/Add.6 Peru: third periodic report CAT/C/39/Add.1 Azerbaijan: initial report CAT/C/37/Add.3 Kyrgyzstan: initial report CAT/C/42/Add.1 Uzbekistan: initial report CAT/C/32/Add.3 35. The following reports, listed in the order in which they had been received by the Secretary-General, were before the Committee at its twenty-fourth session: Netherlands: third periodic report CAT/C/44/Add.4 Poland: third periodic report CAT/C/44/Add.5 Portugal: third periodic report CAT/C/44/Add.7 China: third periodic report CAT/C/39/Add.2 Paraguay: third periodic report CAT/C/49/Add.1 Armenia: second periodic report CAT/C/43/Add.3 El Salvador: initial report CAT/C/44/Add.3 Slovenia: initial report CAT/C/24/Add.5 United States of America: initial report CAT/C/28/Add.5 36. The Committee agreed, at the request of the Government concerned, to postpone the consideration of the second periodic report of Armenia. 37. In accordance with rule 66 of the rules of procedure of the Committee, 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. 38. In accordance with the decision taken by the Committee at its fourth session1, 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 twenty-third and twenty-fourth sessions. The list of the above-mentioned reports and the names of the country rapporteurs and their alternates for each of them appear in annex VI to the present report. 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fifth session, Supplement No. 44 (A/45/44), paras. 14-16. 9