A/RES/52/116 Page 3 7. Encourages States parties to consider limiting the extent of any reservations they lodge to the International Covenants on Human Rights, to formulate any reservations as precisely and narrowly as possible and to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the relevant treaty or otherwise contrary to international law; 8. Also encourages States parties to review regularly any reservations made in respect of the provisions of the International Covenants on Human Rights with a view to withdrawing them; 9. Takes note with appreciation of the annual reports of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-first6 and fifty-second sessions,7 and takes note of General Comments Nos. 258 and 269 adopted by the Committee; 10. Also takes note with appreciation of the reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its twelfth and thirteenth10 and fourteenth and fifteenth sessions,11 and takes note of General Comments Nos. 6 and 7 adopted by the Committee;8 11. Invites the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights to identify specific needs of States parties that might be addressed through the advisory services and technical assistance programme of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the possible participation of members of the Committees where appropriate; 12. Welcomes the continuing efforts of both Committees to strive for uniform standards in the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenants on Human Rights, and appeals to other bodies dealing with similar human rights questions to respect those uniform standards, as expressed in the general comments of the Committees; 13. Urges States parties to fulfil in good time such reporting obligations under the International Covenants on Human Rights as may be requested and to make use of gender-disaggregated data in their reports; 14. Also urges States parties to take duly into account, in implementing the provisions of the International Covenants on Human Rights, the observations made at the conclusion of the consideration of their reports by the Human Rights Committee and by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the views adopted by the Human Rights Committee under the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 6 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/51/40). 7 Ibid., Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/52/40). 8 See HRI/GEN/1/Rev.3. 9 See CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.8/Rev.1. 10 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1996, Supplement No. 2 (E/1996/22). 11 Ibid., 1997, Supplement No. 2 (E/1997/22). /...