the Secretary-General to widely publicize the decisions and recommendations of the Committee. In draft resolution VII (Situation of and assistance to Palestinian women), the Council would demand that Israel accept the de jure applicability of the Geneva Convention to the occupied Palestinian territory, appeal to Governments and others to provide financial assistance to Palestinian women, request the Commission on the Status of Women to continue monitoring those paragraphs of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies concerning assistance to Palestinian women, and request the Secretary-General to assist in and review the situation of Palestinian women using all available resources, and submit to the Commission at its thirty-eighth session a report containing recommendations and a programme of action. In draft decision I, the Council would approve the provisional agenda and documentation for the thirty-eighth session of the Commission. In draft decision II, the Council would decide to convene an inter-sessional working group of the Commission for a period of five working days during the first two weeks of January 1994, open to all Member States and observer States, to further develop the structure of the Platform for Action contained in the annex to Commission resolution 37/7. The Commission also adopted nine resolutions. In resolution 37/1 (Preliminary proposals for the system-wide medium-term plan for the advancement of women for the period 1996-2001), the Commission recommended that the Council request the Secretary-General to revise the plan after the Platform for Action and the second review and appraisal of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies had been adopted in 1995; it recommended that any revised system-wide plan be more concise, take into account changes in the United Nations planning cycles and be more concrete. It recommended that the Commission be given responsibility for monitoring progress in implementing the system-wide plan, that all the United Nations entities be held accountable for the components of the plan falling within their competence. It made a series of detailed comments and recommended that they be taken into account in the final version of the plan. In resolution 37/2 (Inter-agency coordination), the Commission recommended that the Secretary-General further promote and institutionalize coordination of initiatives of United Nations programmes related to women, promote the acceptance of gender-based strategic planning and assign the Division for the Advancement of Women responsibility for coordinating activities leading to the establishment of an official common definition of gender-focused planning for the United Nations system. In resolution 37/3 (Rape and abuse of women in the territory of the former Yugoslavia), the Commission condemned rape and abuse of women in the territory, welcomed the request of the Commission on Human Rights to the Special Rapporteur to pursue an investigation into the situation, urged that the team of experts include a representative of the Division for the Advancement of Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women or both, urged the Security Council to reflect gender balance in any international criminal tribunal that would be established, urged development of long-term, action-oriented plans and programmes for rehabilitation, urged that counselling and other support form an integral part of health and welfare services, and requested the Secretary-General to make the reports of the Special Rapporteur available to the Commission at its thirty-eighth session. -3-