reports in one document. It had already requested Guyana, Togo and Uganda to do so, at previous sessions. 32. The Committee noted with satisfaction that following a request for technical assistance in preparing reports made by the Government of Uganda in February 1994 and the recommendations made by the Committee at its twelfth session in that regard, a government official from Uganda had participated in an international course specifically aimed at training government officials in the reporting obligation system, which was held at the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization at Turin, Italy, in November 1994, within the framework of the fellowship programme of the Centre for Human Rights. 33. In addition, the Committee noted with satisfaction that, in response to a request for technical assistance in preparing reports made by the Government of Croatia in March 1994 and the Committee’s recommendations on the subject, a government official from Croatia had also participated in the training course at Turin. 34. In accordance with the decision adopted by the Committee at its seventh session, the Chairman, at the Committee’s request, discussed with the representative of Malta, whose report was more than three years overdue, the difficulties that prevented that State party from complying with its reporting obligations under the Convention. 35. With regard to second periodic reports, the Committee was informed that, before its thirteenth session, the Secretary-General had sent third reminders to Afghanistan, Austria, Belize, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Senegal and Uruguay, whose reports were due in 1992 but had not yet been received; and a second reminder to Colombia and a first reminder to Turkey, whose second periodic reports were due in 1993. Fourteenth session 36. At its 210th meeting, held on 25 April 1995, the Committee again considered the status of submission of reports under article 19 of the Convention. In addition to the documents listed in paragraph 26 above, the Committee had before it two notes by the Secretary-General: one concerning initial reports to be submitted by States parties in 1995 (CAT/C/28); the other on second periodic reports to be submitted by States parties in 1995 (CAT/C/29). 37. The Committee was informed that, in addition to the five reports that were scheduled for consideration by the Committee at its fourteenth session (see chap. IV, para. 46), the Secretary-General had received the initial report of Armenia (CAT/C/24/Add.4 and the second periodic reports of Denmark (CAT/C/17/Add.13), Senegal (CAT/C/17/Add.14) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (CAT/C/25/Add.6). He had also received additional information requested by the Committee from Germany (ninth session) Morocco and Peru (thirteenth session) and Switzerland (twelfth session) during the consideration of their respective reports. The revised version of the initial report of Belize, requested for 10 March 1994 by the Committee at its eleventh session (see para. 28 above), had not yet been received. 38. The Committee was informed also about the reminders which had been sent by the Secretary-General before its fourteenth session. It noted that, in spite of 11 reminders sent to Togo, 11 reminders to Uganda, 8 reminders to Guyana, 7 reminders to Guinea and 6 reminders to Brazil, the initial reports of those States parties had not yet been received. The Committee once again strongly -7-