HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE DECIDES ON COUNTRY REPORTS TO BE CONSIDERED DURING ITS 1999 SESSIONS

HR/CT/98/45
5 November 1998




The Human Rights Committee this afternoon decided on a list of country reports to be examined during its March and July 1999 sessions which will be held in New York and Geneva respectively.

According to the decision, the reports of the States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to be considered in March at United Nations Headquarters in New York will be those of Cameroon, Chile, Canada, Costa Rica, Lesotho, and Cambodia. The following countries will present their reports to the Committee during its July session which will be held in Geneva: Romania, Poland, Republic of Korea, Mexico, and Kuwait.

Also this afternoon, the Committee fixed the timetable for its consideration of the reports of Armenia (2001), Austria (2002), Belgium (2002), Iceland (2003), Japan (2002), and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2002). The reports of these States were considered during the Committee's current session. Periodic reports from States parties are reviewed by the Committee every five years.

The Committee is scheduled to finalize its three-week session tomorrow morning by adopting its report for the session and issuing its final observations and conclusions on the reports of the countries that it considered. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson will address the closing session.