III. SUBMISSION OF REPORTS BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONVENTION Action taken by the Committee to ensure the submission of reports Ninth session 31. The Committee, at its 131st meeting, on 17 November 1992, considered the status of submission of reports under article 19 of the Convention. The Committee had before it the following documents: (a) Note by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of 27 States parties which were due in 1988 (CAT/C/5); (b) Note by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of 10 States parties which were due in 1989 (CAT/C/7); (c) Note by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of 11 States parties that were due in 1990 (CAT/C/9); (d) Note by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of 7 States parties that were due in 1991 (CAT/C/12); (e) Note by the Secretary-General concerning initial reports of 10 States parties that were due in 1992 (CAT/C/16/Rev.1); (f) Note by the Secretary-General concerning second periodic reports of 26 States parties that were due in 1992 (CAT/C/17). 32. The Committee was informed that, in addition to the 11 reports that were scheduled for consideration by the Committee at its ninth session (see para. 42 below), the Secretary-General had received the additional report of China (CAT/C/7/Add.14) requested by the Committee at its fourth session under rule 67, paragraph 2, of its rules of procedure, the initial report of Peru (CAT/C/7/Add.15), and additional information from Australia (CAT/C/9/Add.11) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.* 33. In accordance with rule 65 of the Committee’s rules of procedure and its decisions, the Secretary-General continued sending reminders automatically to those States parties whose initial reports were more than 12 months overdue, and subsequent reminders every six months. In the case of reports which were more than three years overdue, the Chairman of the Committee, at its request, discussed the question of reporting obligations with the representatives of the States parties concerned or addressed a letter on the subject to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as appropriate. Those States were Togo and Uganda, whose initial reports were due in 1988, but had not yet been received after five reminders; and Guyana, whose initial report, due in 1989, had not yet been received after four reminders. __________ * Information consisting of legal and judicial texts or statistical tables was made available to the Committee, but it has not been issued as a document. -8-