14. The Committee also reviewed its methods of work under article 40 of the Covenant and decided that, for a trial period and in order to facilitate the process of preparing lists of issues, individual members of the Working Group on article 40 would be assigned, as from the time of appointment to the Working Group, special responsibilities relating to tha drafting of one or mvre of the lists of issues that were to be prepared for the Committee’s next session. Members were to be provided, as soon as possible, with all relevant background materials concerning the country or countries in question, including previous reports, summary records, analytical studies and other United Nations studies or reports that might be relevant, as well as the draft lists of issues prepared, as at present, by the Secretariat. Additionally, non-governmental organisations that wished to contribute information were to send such information to the Secretariat as far in advance of the session as possible for transmission to the appropriate member of the Working Group, The list of issues would continue to be drawn up by the Working Group in the light of the draft prepared by the member concerned and submitted for formal endorsement by the Committee. 15. After an exchange of views among members concerning the Committee’s methods of work in dealing with states of emergency declared under article 4. paragraph 3, of the Covenant, the Committee requested the Secretariat to provide at each of its sessions an updated list showing any state of emergency of which the Secretary-General might have been notified since the Committee’s previous session. 1G. On behalf of the Committee, the Chairman expressed the appreciation to Messrs. Cooray and Mommersteeg, who were to Committee after the current session, for the dedication and which they had discharged their functions as members of the Fortv-first Committee’s leave the competence with Committee. session 17. The Committee was informed by the representative of the Secretary-General of the adoption by the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (resolution 451158 of 18 December 1990) and that, in its resolution 45185 of 14 December 1990, the General Assembly had endorsed the conclusions and recommendations of the third meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies. In that regard, the representative of the Secretary-General noted that progress had been made in implementing a number of those recommendations. In particular, the consolidated guidelines for the initial part of the reports of States parties would shortly be transmitted to all States parties, which would be requested to submit the required information to the Secretariat in a “core document”. The manual on reporting, prepared in collaboration with the United Nations Xustitute for Training and Research (UNXTAR), would also be circulated to States parties. Additionally, he noted that the General Assembly had taken action concerning the financing of the annual recurrent costs of the computerised database. 10. The Committee, taking note of recent and current events in Iraq affecting the situation of human rights in Iraq, adopted a special decision (see para. 40 and annex VI below). -4-