A/73/44 the situation of Cabo Verde in the absence of a report at its fifty-ninth session. On 29 January 2016, Côte dʼIvoire accepted the simplified reporting procedure and received a list of issues prior to reporting that was adopted at the fifty-ninth session. At its fifty-eighth session, in the absence of reply from Antigua and Barbuda, the Committee notified the State party that it would examine its situation in the absence of a report at its sixty-first session. At its fifty-ninth session, the Committee examined the situation of Cabo Verde in the absence of a report. At the same session, the Committee 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. 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 conduct at a future session an examination, in the absence of a report. On 8 December 2016, Malawi accepted the simplified reporting procedure and on 2 February 2017, Somalia accepted the simplified reporting procedure. Both States received a list of issues prior to reporting that had been adopted at the sixty-second session. At its sixty-first session, the Committee examined the situation of Antigua and Barbuda in the absence of a report. At the same session, it decided to notify Seychelles that it would examine the situation in the absence of a report at its sixty-fourth session. At the sixty-second session, specific reminders were sent to Bangladesh and the Niger 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. III. Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention 35. At its sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third sessions, the Committee considered reports submitted by 17 States parties under article 19 (1) of the Convention and adopted 17 sets of concluding observations. Furthermore, at its sixty-first session, the Committee considered the country situation of Antigua and Barbuda in the absence of a report and adopted concluding observations (see sect. II. D). 36. The reports considered by the Committee at its sixty-first 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 Ireland Felice Gaer Ana Racu Second periodic report (CAT/C/IRL/2) CAT/C/IRL/CO/2 Panama Jens Modvig Claude Heller Fourth periodic report (CAT/C/PAN/4) CAT/C/PAN/CO/4 Paraguay Claude Heller Essadia Belmir Seventh periodic report (CAT/C/PRY/7) CAT/C/PRY/CO/7 37. The reports considered by the Committee at its sixty-second 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 BosniaHerzegovina Jens Modvig Ana Racu Sixth periodic report (CAT/C/BIH/6) CAT/C/BIH/CO/6 Bulgaria Ana Racu Kening Zhang Sixth periodic report (CAT/C/BGR/6) CAT/C/BGR/CO/6 7

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