"The Working Group recommended that, in order to encourage Governments to reply to communications, the Commission might request the SecretaryGeneral to send a follow-up letter." ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMISSION Women and children in the process of the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of a democratic South Africa 23. At the 14th meeting, on 16 March 1994, the representative of Algeria, on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group of 77 and China, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.6) entitled "Women and children in the process of the elimination of apartheid". 24. At the 15th meeting, on 17 March, the representative of the United States of America made a statement. 25. At the same meeting, following a statement by the representative of Algeria, the Secretary of the Commission read out amendments to the draft resolution which had been agreed upon during informal consultations. The amendments were as follows: (a) In operative paragraph 2, the words "the remaining political prisoners" were replaced by the words "any remaining political prisoners"; (b) Apartheid the words existence In operative paragraph 4, the words "Requests the Centre against to further widen and strengthen its cooperation with" were replaced by "Requests the Centre against Apartheid during its remaining period of to cooperate with"; (c) In operative paragraph 6, the words "to mandate the United Nations Observer Mission to South Africa" were inserted after the words "Calls upon the Secretary-General". 26. The Commission then adopted the draft resolution, as orally amended (see chap. I, sect. A, draft resolution II). Integration of women in the Middle East peace process 27. At the 14th meeting, on 16 March 1994, the representative of the United States of America, on behalf of Norway, 42/ the Russian Federation and the United States of America introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1994/L.7) entitled "Integration of women in the Middle East peace process". Subsequently, Bulgaria joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. 28. At the 16th meeting, on 18 March, the representative of the United States of America orally revised the draft resolution as follows: (a) Operative paragraph 7, which had read: "7. Urges Governments, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations to ensure that women’s political development and participation are integrated into all efforts evolving from the Declaration of Principles, including legislative reform, institution-building and political processes", -65-