A/68/44 50. The Committee drew the attention of these States parties to the fact that delays in reporting seriously hamper the implementation of the Convention in the States parties and the Committee in carrying out its function of monitoring such implementation. The Committee requested information on the progress made by these States parties regarding 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 51. Further to its decision to send reminders to all States parties whose initial reports are overdue,8 the Committee decided, at its forty-ninth 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 22 years, the most overdue of all initial reports — the Committee decided to mandate the Chairperson of the Committee to meet with the permanent representative to the United Nations office at Geneva to raise this issue. The State party agreed to submit its initial report before the fiftyfirst session of the Committee, which opens on 28 October 2013. If not received by that date, pursuant to article 67 of its rules of procedure, the Committee would conduct at its fifty-second session, in May 2014, an examination, in the absence of a report, of the measures taken by Guinea to implement the provisions of the Convention in its territory. 8 10 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 44 (A/64/44), paras. 28–29. GE.13-46043