A/75/44 those States (Antigua and Barbuda and Cabo Verde) in the absence of a report (A/74/44, para. 33). 33. In the context of that practice, the Committee received three reports during the period under review. Bangladesh submitted an initial report on 23 July 2019. 2 Malawi, which had accepted the simplified reporting procedure on 8 December 2016, submitted its initial report on 14 October 2019. Somalia, which had accepted the simplified reporting procedure on 2 February 2016, submitted its initial report on 16 December 2019.3 34. At its sixty-seventh session, the Committee examined the initial report of Bangladesh. At the same session, the Committee decided to send specific reminders to Botswana, Mali and Nigeria to submit their long-overdue initial reports and to offer them the simplified reporting procedure. If they did not accept the simplified reporting procedure or if reports under the traditional reporting procedure were not received pursuant to article 67 of its rules of procedure, the Committee would at a future session conduct an examination, in the absence of a report. Botswana and Mali accepted the simplified reporting procedure for their overdue initial reports on 27 September 2019 and 26 July 2019, respectively. 35. At its sixty-eighth session, the Committee decided to examine the situation in Nigeria in the absence of its initial report at the November 2020 session. III. Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention 36. At its sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth sessions, the Committee considered reports submitted by 10 States parties under article 19 (1) of the Convention and adopted 10 sets of concluding observations. The review of the reports of Cuba, Kenya, Iceland, Montenegro, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay, scheduled for the sixty-ninth session, was postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. 37. The reports considered by the Committee at its sixty-seventh session and the concluding observations thereon are available from the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org) under the symbols indicated below. Party Country rapporteurs Report Concluding observations Bangladesh Felice Gaer Jens Modvig Initial report (CAT/C/BGD/1) CAT/C/BGD/CO/1 Greece Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón Abdelwahab Hani Seventh periodic report (CAT/C/GRC/7) CAT/C/GRC/CO/7 Poland Ana Racu Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov Seventh periodic report (CAT/C/POL/7) CAT/C/POL/CO/7 Togo Sébastien Touzé Claude Heller Third periodic report (CAT/C/TGO/3) CAT/C/TGO/CO/3 38. The reports considered by the Committee at its sixty-eighth session and the concluding observations thereon are available from the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org) under the symbols indicated below: 2 3 At its sixty-second session, the Committee had sent a specific reminder to Bangladesh to submit its long-overdue initial report and to offer it the simplified reporting procedure. At its sixty-fourth session, the Committee had decided to notify Bangladesh that it would examine the situation in the absence of a report at its sixty-sixth session. At its fifty-ninth session, the Committee had decided to send a specific reminder to Malawi and Somalia to submit their long-overdue initial reports and to offer them the simplified reporting procedure. Both States had received lists of issues prior to reporting that the Committee had adopted at its sixty-second session. 7

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