United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Sessional/Annual Report of Committee - (a) Notes by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of States parties which were due from 1988 to 1996 (CAT/C/5, 7, 9, 12, 16/Rev.1, 21/Rev.1, 24, 28/Rev.1, 32/Rev.2 and 37); (b) Notes by the Secretary-General concerning second periodic reports which were due from 1992 to 1996 (CAT/C/17, 20/Rev.1, 25, 29, 33 and 38); (c) Notes by the Secretary-General concerning third periodic reports which were due in 1996 and 1997 (CAT/C/34 and 39). 18. The Committee was informed that, in addition to the 13 reports that were scheduled for consideration by the Committee at its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions (see paras. 23 and 26), the Secretary-General had received the initial report of Cuba (CAT/C/32/Add.2), the second periodic reports of Cyprus (CAT/C/33/Add.1), France (CAT/C/17/Add.18), Germany (CAT/C/29/Add.2), Guatemala (CAT/C/29/Add.3), New Zealand (CAT/C/29/Add.4), Peru (CAT/C/20/Add.6) and Portugal (CAT/C/25/ Add.10) and the third periodic reports of Argentina (CAT/C/34/Add.5), Norway (CAT/C/34/Add.8), Spain (CAT/C/34/Add.7) and Switzerland (CAT/C/34/Add.6). 19. The Committee was also informed that the revised version of the initial report of Belize requested for 10 March 1994 by the Committee at its eleventh session, had not yet been received in spite of four reminders sent by the Secretary-General and a letter that the Chairman of the Committee addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Economic Development of Belize on 20 November 1995. 20. In addition, the Committee, at its seventeenth and eighteenth sessions, was informed about the reminders that had been sent by the Secretary-General to States parties whose reports were overdue and letters that the Chairman of the Committee, at its request, had addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of those States parties whose reports were more than three years overdue. The situation with regard to overdue reports as at 9 May 1997 was as follows: State party Date on which the report was due Number of reminders Initial reports Uganda Togo Guyana Brazil Guinea Somalia Venezuela Yugoslavia Estonia Yemen Bosnia and Herzegovina Benin 25 June 1988 17 December 1988 17 June 1989 27 October 1990 8 November 1990 22 February 1991 27 August 1992 9 October 1992 19 November 1992 4 December 1992 5 March 1993 10 April 1993 14 14 11 9 10 7 6 6 6 6 5 5 http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/de75e94f920bd0a0802565a600537744?Opendocument (7 of 109)16/10/2006 9:54:12 AM