State party Guatemala Somalia Paraguay Malta Germany Liechtenstein Romania Date on which the report was due 3 22 10 12 30 1 16 February 1995 February 1995 April 1995 October 1995 October 1995 December 1995 January 1996 Number of reminders - 22. The Committee expressed concern at the number of States parties that had not complied with their reporting obligations. With regard, in particular, to States parties whose reports were more than four years overdue, the Committee deplored that, in spite of several reminders sent by the Secretary-General and letters or other messages of its Chairman to their respective Ministers for Foreign Affairs, those States parties continued not to comply with the obligations they had freely assumed under the Convention. The Committee stressed that it had the duty to monitor the Convention and that the non-compliance of a State party with its reporting obligations constituted an infringement of the provisions of the Convention and prevented the Committee from assessing whether the Convention was effectively implemented at the national level. 23. In this connection, the Committee, on 9 May 1996, decided that the list of States parties whose reports are overdue be issued separately and widely publicized in connection with the press conference that the Committee usually held at the end of each session. 24. The Committee again requested the Secretary-General to continue sending reminders automatically to those States parties whose initial reports were more than 12 months overdue and subsequent reminders every 6 months. 25. The status of submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention as at 10 May 1996, the closing date of the sixteenth session of the Committee, appears in annex III to the present report. -7-