VII. fubllc And P~ivAta PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ME!TINGS meetingA Bull II The meetings of the Committee and itl sub,idiary bodi'l shall be h.ld in public, unles8 the Committee decides otherwil. or it applarl from the relevant provisions of the Conventlon that the meeting Ihould be held in privat•• Bull 32 At the close ot each private meeting, the Committ.e or it. lublidiary body may issue a communique, through the Secretary-General, for the ule of lh. information media and the general public regarding the activitie' ot the Committ•• at it. closed meetings. VIII. C~U:rec-tiOJL.O!--liumm8ry RECORDS _recora. Summary records of the pUblic and private meetings of the Committ'e and itl bodies shall be prepared by the Secretariat. They .hall be di.tributed as soon as possible to the members of the Committee and to any othe~. participating in the meetings. All ~uch participants may, within three working days of the receipt of the records of the meeting8, submit correction. to the Secretariat in the languages in which the records have been is.ued. Correction. to the record. of the meetings shall be consolidated in a single corrigendum to be ilsued after the end of the session concerned. Any di,agreement concerning .uch corr.ction. Ihall be decided by the :hairman of the Committee or the Chairman of the lub,idiary body to which the record relatb or, in ca,. of continued di,agreement, by deci.ion of the Committee or of the lub.idiary body. ~ub8idiary 1. The summary records of pUblic meetings Ihall be document. for general distribution. 2. The summary records of private me.tings Ihall be distributed to the membera of the Committee and to other participants in the meetings. They may be made available to others upon decision of the Committ.e at such time and under such conditions as the Committee may decide. -23-