The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning started adopting its annual report which will be submitted to the General Assembly.
In the part of the report it has adopted so far, the Committee has included its conclusions and recommendations on the States reports which it considered during its current session, communications and its considerations of petitions, copies of reports and other information relating to trust and non-self-governing territories.
Also this morning, the Committee expressed its view that the extension of the fifty-fifth and fifty-seventh session from three to four weeks made it possible for the Committee to consider additional State party reports and to prevent any accumulation of unconsidered reports. In addition, it had made possible the allocation of four meetings for a thematic discussion of racial discrimination against the Roma.
The Committee decided that it would not request any extension of the fifty-ninth session in August 2001 in view of its request that the fifty-eighth session be held in New York, its request that the fifty-ninth session be held in South Africa, and because of the preparations for the World Conference against Racism. However, the Committee might request that the sixty-first session in 2002 be extended to four weeks.
When the Committee reconvenes at 3 p.m. this afternoon, it will continue adopting its annual report as well as its conclusions on the report of Ghana.
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