Discrimination against Women at its fourteenth session, 48/ as well as the deliberations of the Working Group; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-first session a comprehensive report, including a synthesis of the views requested in paragraph 1 above; 3. Also requests the Secretary-General to provide to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-first session a comparative summary of existing communications and inquiry procedures and practices under international human rights instruments and under the Charter of the United Nations; 4. Recommends that the Economic and Social Council adopt the draft decision entitled "Renewal of the mandate 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". 49/ Resolution 40/9. Implementation of strategic objectives and action in the critical area of concern: poverty* The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling General Assembly resolution 50/203 of 22 December 1995 on the follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 49/110 of 19 December 1994 and other relevant resolutions of the Assembly related to international cooperation for the eradication of poverty in developing countries, Recalling further Assembly resolution 50/107 of 20 December 1995 on the observance of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and proclamation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, Reaffirming the importance of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing from 4 to 15 September 1995, as well as all the United Nations major conferences and summits organized since 1990, in particular the World Summit for Social Development held in Copenhagen in March 1995, Recognizing that the eradication of poverty will require the implementation and integration of strategies at the national and international levels in all the critical areas of concern in the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, 50/ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 62-69. 48/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Fiftieth Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/50/38), chap. I, sect. B. 49/ For the text of the draft decision, see chap. I, sect. B, draft decision I. 50/ Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (A/CONF.177/20 and Add.1), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. -31-