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226 General Assembly - Thirty-ninth Session of 1985 to allow enough time for a full discussion of this important matter; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fortieth session a report on the status of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 13. Again urges the Secretary-General, taking into account the suggestions of the Human Rights Committee, to take determined steps within existing resources to give more publicity to the work of the Committee and, similar- ly, to the work of the Economic and Social Council and its Sessional Working Group and to improve administrative and related arrangements to enable them to carry out their respective functions effectively under the International Covenants on Human Rights; 14. Urges the Secretary-General to continue to expe- dite the publication of the official public records of the Human Rights Committee in bound volumes, as indicated in General Assembly resolution 37/191, starting with its first session; 15. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat effectively assists the Human Rights Committee and the Economic and Social Council in the implementation of their respect- ive functions under the International Covenants on Human Rights. JO 1 st plenary meeting 14 December 1984 39/137. Elaboration of a second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty The General Assembly, Recalling its decision 35/437 of 15 December 1980 and its resolution 36/59 of 25 November 1981 concerning the idea of elaborating a draft of a second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 189 aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, Recalling also its resolution 37/192 of 18 December 1982, in which it requested the Commission on Human Rights to consider the idea of elaborating a draft of a second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, Taking note of Commission on Human Rights resolu- tion 1984/19 of 6 March 1984190 and the action taken by the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to implement that resolution, 191 Taking note also of the report of the Secretary- General, 192 1. Requests the Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to consider further the idea of elaborating a draft of a second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aim- ing at the abolition of the death penalty; 2. Invites Member States which are in a position to do so, specialized agencies and international organizations to 189 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. l90 See Official Records oft he Economic and Social Council, 1984, Supple ment No. 4 (E/1984/14 and Corr.I), chap. II, sect. A l91 See E/CN.4/!985/3-E/CN.4/Sub.2/1984143. chap. XVlll. sect. A. re, olution 1984/7. assist the Commission and the Sub-Commission in the consideration of this question; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to inform the General Assembly at its forty-second session of the consid- eration given to this question by the Commission and the Sub-Commission; 4. Decides to continue its consideration of this ques- tion at its forty-second session, in the light of the action taken by the Commission and the Sub-Commission, under the item entitled "International Covenants on Human Rights". /01 st plenary meeting 14 December 1984 39/138. Reporting obligations of States parties to United Nations conventions on human rights The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 37/44 of 3 December 1982 and 38/117 of 16 December I 983, Considering that the General Assembly, as the principal organ of the United Nations entitled to adopt conventions on human rights, is in the position to take an overview of their implementation as an integrated system of substan- tive provisions and reporting obligations of States parties to the various conventions, Conscious that the fulfilment of reporting obligations constitutes an essential element of co-operation by States parties in contributing to the assessment of their compli- ance with their obligations, Bearing in mind the report of the Secretary-General on the reporting obligations of States parties under various United Nations conventions on human rights, 19•1 Having considered the report of the meeting of the Chairmen of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee, the Sessional Working Group of Governmental Experts on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held at Geneva on 16 and I 7 August I 984,194 Concerned about the problems experienced by the above-mentioned bodies in the functioning of the report- ing procedures, including the burden which several coex- isting reporting systems place upon States parties to the conventions on human rights. Convinced, therefore, of the need to improve the existing reporting systems in order to resolve the problems experi- enced both by the bodies entrusted with the consideration of the periodic reports of the States parties and by the States parties to the conventions on human rights, I. Reiterates the importance it attaches to the obliga- tions established under international conventions, inclu- ding their respective reporting systems; 2. Takes note with interest of the report of the meeting of the Chairmen of the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee, the Sessional Working Group of Governmental Experts on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which contains suggestions made by the 192 A1391535. 193 Af381393. 194 A139-484. annn

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