D. Agenda and organization of work 8. At the 1st meeting, on 2 March, the Commission adopted its provisional agenda and approved its organization of work, as contained in document E/CN.6/1998/1 and Corr.1. The agenda read as follows: 1. Election of officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women: (a) Review of mainstreaming in organizations of the United Nations system; (b) Emerging issues, trends and new approaches to issues affecting the situation of women or equality between women and men; (c) Implementation of strategic objectives and action in the critical areas of concern. 4. Communications concerning the status of women. 5. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, including the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention. 6. Provisional agenda for the forty-third session of the Commission. 7. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-second session. 9. Also at the 1st meeting, the Commission was informed that Aloisia Woergetter (Austria) would continue to serve as Chairperson of the Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, established in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/29. E. Consultations with non-governmental organizations 10. Written statements, submitted by non-governmental organizations in accordance with rule 76 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, were circulated in documents E/CN.6/1998/NGO/1-11. -64-