E/2004/27 E/CN.6/2004/14 Agenda item 3 (a) Review of gender mainstreaming in organizations of the United Nations system Comprehensive review and appraisal of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly 21. At the 10th meeting, on 5 March 2004, the Commission held an exchange of views, under the sub-item on the question of the comprehensive review and appraisal of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly. 22. Statements were made by the representatives of Canada, Cuba, India, Australia, the United States of America, China, the Sudan, Japan, the Congo, Algeria, the Islamic Republic of Iran and South Africa, and by the observers for Qatar (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China), New Zealand, Ireland (on behalf of the European Union), Namibia, Switzerland and Suriname. 23. At the same meeting, the Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women responded to questions raised. A. High-level round table of the Commission on the Status of Women on the gaps and challenges in measuring progress implementation, in the context of the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session in 2005 24. At its 3rd meeting, on 1 March, the Commission held a high-level round table on the gaps and challenges in measuring progress implementation, in the context of the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly by the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-ninth session in 2005, in which the following delegations took part: Botswana, Pakistan, Sweden, Namibia, Ireland (on behalf of the European Union), Finland, Armenia, Norway, Azerbaijan, the Philippines, Cuba, China, Canada, Australia, Algeria, Morocco, Zambia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Spain, Guatemala, India, Angola, the United Republic of Tanzania, South Africa, the Netherlands, Kenya, the Congo, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Benin, Thailand, Indonesia and Croatia. 25. The Co-Chairperson (Vice-Chairperson of the Statistical Commission, Ms. Katherine Wallman (United States of America)) made a statement, after which statements were made by the representatives of the following States in their capacity as members of the Statistical Commission: the Republic of Korea, Finland, South Africa and the United States of America. 26. Statements were also made by the representatives of UNICEF, the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNESCO and the World Health Organization (WHO). 32