A/67/44 the fulfilment of their reporting obligations and on any obstacles that they might be facing in that respect. It also informed them that, according to rule 67 of its rules of procedure, the Committee might proceed with a review of the implementation of the Convention in the State party in the absence of a report, and that such review would be carried out on the basis of information that may be available to the Committee, including sources from outside the United Nations. E. Examination of measures taken by a State party in the absence of a report 43. Further to its decision to send reminders to all States parties whose initial reports are overdue, the Committee decided, at its forty-eighth session, to take action with regard to States parties whose initial reports were long overdue. Noting that the initial report of Guinea had been overdue since 8 November 1990 — at more than 21 years, the most overdue of all initial reports — the Committee decided to inform the State party that, further to previous reminders sent since 2009 that have not been acknowledged by the State party and pursuant to article 67 of its rules of procedure, it would conduct at its fiftieth session in May 2013 an examination, in the absence of a report, of the measures taken by Guinea, if a report is not submitted by 31 December 2012. GE.12-44492 9