34. In addition, second reminders were sent by the Secretary-General in June 1992 to Brazil, Guinea and Poland and a third reminder to Portugal, whose initial reports were due in 1990 but had not yet been received. A first reminder was also sent in June 1992 to Paraguay and second reminders were sent in September 1992 to Guatemala and Somalia, whose initial reports were due in 1991 but had not yet been received. Tenth session 35. At its 144th meeting, on 22 April 1993, the Committee also considered the status of submission of reports under article 19 of the Convention. In addition to the documents listed in paragraph 31 above, the Committee had before it two notes by the Secretary-General, concerning initial reports to be submitted by 6 States parties in 1993 (CAT/C/21), and second periodic reports to be submitted by 10 States parties in 1993 (CAT/C/20). 36. The Committee was informed that, in addition to the eight reports that were scheduled for consideration by the Committee at its tenth session (see para. 44 below), the Secretary-General had received the initial reports of Paraguay (CAT/C/12/Add.3) and Poland (CAT/C/9/Add.13), the second periodic reports of Ecuador (CAT/C/20/Add.1) and Egypt (CAT/C/17/Add.11) and additional information from the United Kingdom on its dependent territories (CAT/C/9/Add.14). 37. The Committee was also informed that initial reports had not yet been received from Togo and Uganda, whose reports were due in 1988, and Guyana, whose report was due in 1989. In this connection, the Committee decided that in addition to Togo and Uganda, Guyana should be requested to submit its initial and second periodic reports in one document. The Committee was informed that third reminders had been sent by the Secretary-General in January 1993 to Brazil and Guinea and a fourth reminder to Portugal, whose initial reports were due in 1990 but had not yet been received. A first reminder had also been sent in January 1993 to Malta and third reminders had been sent in March 1993 to Guatemala and Somalia, whose initial reports were due in 1991 but had not yet been received. 38. The Committee again requested the Secretary-General to continue sending reminders automatically to those States parties whose initial reports were more than 12 months overdue and subsequent reminders every six months. 39. In accordance with the decision adopted by the Committee at its seventh session, the Chairman, at the Committee’s request, discussed with the representative of Portugal, whose report was more than three years overdue, the difficulties that prevented that State party from complying with its reporting obligations under the Convention. Portugal submitted its initial report (CAT/C/9/Add.15) in May 1993. 40. Finally, the Committee, noting that no reply had been received to the letters that its Chairman had addressed in July 1992 to the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Guyana, Togo, and Uganda with regard to their overdue reports, regretted that those States parties were not complying with the obligations they had freely assumed under the Convention. 41. The status of submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention as at April 1993, the closing date of the tenth session of the Committee, appears in annex III to the present report. -9-