Status of Women at its thirty-eighth session, and encourages the Committee to continue its work in adopting detailed general recommendations; 6. Once again urges all States that have not yet done so to become parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 7. Encourages States to consider limiting the extent of any reservation they lodge to the Convention, to formulate any reservation as precisely and as narrowly as possible, and to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention or otherwise contrary to international law; 8. Requests States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to review regularly their reservations, with a view to withdrawing them expeditiously so that the Convention may be fully implemented; 9. Urges the Secretary-General to continue to publicize widely the decisions and recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. B. Draft decision 2. The Commission on the Status of Women recommends to the Economic and Social Council the adoption of the following draft decision: Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its thirty-eighth session and provisional agenda and documentation for the thirty-ninth session of the Commission* The Economic and Social Council takes note of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its thirty-eighth session and approves the provisional agenda and documentation for the thirty-ninth session of the Commission set out below. 1. Election of officers. (Legislative authority: rule 15 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council) 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. (Legislative authority: Economic and Social Council resolution 1894 (LVII); rules 5 and 7 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council) 3. Preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women: Equality, Development and Peace: _______________________ * For the discussion, see chap. VI. -7- Action for

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