the Committee also noted that the third periodic report of Iraq was due for submission to the Committee on 4 April 1990. Taking into consideration recent and current events in Iraq affecting the situation of human rights under the Covenant, the Committee, acting under article 40, paragraph 1 (b), decided to request the Government of Iraq to submit its third of the Covenant, periodic report without further delay to be discussed by the Committee at its to submit by 15 June 1991 its report, forty-second session and, in any event, in summary form if necessary, as it related in particular to the application at the present time of articles 6. 7, 9 and 27 of the Covenant (see annex VII below). 40. ’ - na sesb 41. The Committee was informed that the initial reports of Algeria and the Niger, the second periodic reports of Belgium, Guinea, Luxembourg, Peru and the United Republic of Tanzania, as well as the third periodic reports of Iraq, Senegal and Uruguay had been received. During its fortieth, forty-first and forty-second sessions the Committee considered the initial report of the Sudaw the second periodic reports of Canada, India, Jordan, t4adagascar, Morocco, Panama and Sri Lanka; and the third periodic reports of Canada, Finland, Iraq, Spain, Sweden, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. A list of State party delegations participating in the consideration of the reports submitted by their countries is contained in annex IX to the present report. 42. 43. reports report. The status of reports considered during the period uocler review and still pending consideration is indicated in annex V to the present The following sections relating to States parties are arranged on a country-by-country basis according to the sequence followed by the Committee in its consideration of reports at its fortieth, forty-first and forty-second sessions. These sections are only summaries, based on the summary records of the meetings at which the reports were considered by the Committee. Fuller ingormation is contained in the reports and additional information submitted by the States parties concerned 11 and in the summary records referred to. 44. The Committee considered the second and third periodic reports of Canada (CCPR/C/Sl/Add.l and CCPR/C/64/Add.l) at its 1010th to 1013th meetings, held oh 23 and 24 October 1990 (see CCPR/C/SR.lOlO-1013). 45. The reports were introduced by the representative of the State party, explained that under the Canadian Constitution, legislative authority for implementation of the Covenant’s provisions was shared between federal, provincial and territorial governments, Extensive consultations haa thus 46. -lO- who the been