E/2002/27 E/CN.6/2002/13 report of the Working Group on Communications. This affirmative vote is due to the following: 1. The Commission on the Status of Women at its current session (forty-sixth) was unable to discuss the bulk of the report of the Working Group and the discussions and negotiations left unfinished before reaching any consensus on the whole text. Under these circumstances, any reference by the Commission to the report of the Working Group as “revised” does not correspond to reality. 2. No communication from the 1503 procedure should be considered as a basis for the conclusions supposed to be elaborated by the Working Group. The current practice of the sharing of information and communications between the Commission on the Status of Women and the 1503 procedure is not expected under the present resolutions of the Economic and Social Council. 3. According to the provisions of the existing resolutions, including Council resolution 1983/27, the Working Group is mandated with the task of “indicating the categories in which communications are most frequently submitted to the Commission”. Hence there is no legal basis, in our view, for the Working Group to “express its concern” or to “note” the violations of human rights based on the communications forwarded to the Commission on the Status of Women, as the information received corresponds only to the allegations accompanied by replies from Governments. 4. According to Council resolution 1983/27, the Working Group is mandated with the task of bringing to the attention of the Commission on the Status of Women those communications “which appear to reveal a consistent pattern of reliably attested injustice and discriminatory practices against women” in the form of “categories of communications”. There are instances in the report of the Working Group where the conclusion is drawn solely on the basis of just one communication on an isolated case in one country to which the concerned Government replied in detail. These kinds of communications clearly do not constitute any “trend” or “pattern” as stipulated in the pertinent resolutions, including resolution 1983/27. 5. The inclusion of the report of the Working Group in the report of the Commission on the Status of Women to the Economic and Social Council is neither obligatory nor expected, as the Working Group on Communications is a subsidiary body of the Commission on the Status of Women and its reports are addressed to it. It is only the Commission on the Status of Women that, on the basis of the report of the Working Group, may decide to make recommendations to its parent body, the Economic and Social Council. The practice of automatic transmission of the report of the Working Group to the Council is a wrong innovation. The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while extending its sincere appreciation to the Chairperson, Ambassador Othman Jerandi of Tunisia, for his able leadership, hard work and the dedication, hopes that the Commission on the Status of Women would be able, at its forty- 63