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those States (Antigua and Barbuda and Cabo Verde) in the absence of a report (A/74/44, para.
33).
33.
In the context of that practice, the Committee received three reports during the period
under review. Bangladesh submitted an initial report on 23 July 2019. 2 Malawi, which had
accepted the simplified reporting procedure on 8 December 2016, submitted its initial report
on 14 October 2019. Somalia, which had accepted the simplified reporting procedure on 2
February 2016, submitted its initial report on 16 December 2019.3
34.
At its sixty-seventh session, the Committee examined the initial report of Bangladesh.
At the same session, the Committee decided to send specific reminders to Botswana, Mali
and Nigeria to submit their long-overdue initial reports and to offer them the simplified
reporting procedure. If they did not accept the simplified reporting procedure or if reports
under the traditional reporting procedure were not received pursuant to article 67 of its rules
of procedure, the Committee would at a future session conduct an examination, in the absence
of a report. Botswana and Mali accepted the simplified reporting procedure for their overdue
initial reports on 27 September 2019 and 26 July 2019, respectively.
35.
At its sixty-eighth session, the Committee decided to examine the situation in Nigeria
in the absence of its initial report at the November 2020 session.
III. Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under
article 19 of the Convention
36.
At its sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth sessions, the Committee considered reports
submitted by 10 States parties under article 19 (1) of the Convention and adopted 10 sets of
concluding observations. The review of the reports of Cuba, Kenya, Iceland, Montenegro,
United Arab Emirates and Uruguay, scheduled for the sixty-ninth session, was postponed due
to the COVID-19 situation.
37.
The reports considered by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session and the
concluding observations thereon are available from the Official Document System of the
United Nations (http://documents.un.org) under the symbols indicated below.
Party
Country rapporteurs
Report
Concluding
observations
Bangladesh Felice Gaer
Jens Modvig
Initial report
(CAT/C/BGD/1)
CAT/C/BGD/CO/1
Greece
Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón
Abdelwahab Hani
Seventh periodic report
(CAT/C/GRC/7)
CAT/C/GRC/CO/7
Poland
Ana Racu
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov
Seventh periodic report
(CAT/C/POL/7)
CAT/C/POL/CO/7
Togo
Sébastien Touzé
Claude Heller
Third periodic report
(CAT/C/TGO/3)
CAT/C/TGO/CO/3
38.
The reports considered by the Committee at its sixty-eighth session and the
concluding observations thereon are available from the Official Document System of the
United Nations (http://documents.un.org) under the symbols indicated below:
2
3
At its sixty-second session, the Committee had sent a specific reminder to Bangladesh to submit its
long-overdue initial report and to offer it the simplified reporting procedure. At its sixty-fourth
session, the Committee had decided to notify Bangladesh that it would examine the situation in the
absence of a report at its sixty-sixth session.
At its fifty-ninth session, the Committee had decided to send a specific reminder to Malawi and
Somalia to submit their long-overdue initial reports and to offer them the simplified reporting
procedure. Both States had received lists of issues prior to reporting that the Committee had adopted
at its sixty-second session.
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