A/RES/58/165 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; 9. Also encourages States parties to review regularly any reservations made in respect of the provisions of the International Covenants on Human Rights and the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights with a view to withdrawing them; 10. Welcomes the annual reports of the Human Rights Committee submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh 7 and fifty-eighth 8 sessions, and takes note of the General Comments adopted by the Committee; 9 11. Also welcomes the reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh sessions 10 and on its twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth sessions, 11 and takes note of the General Comments adopted by the Committee;9 12. Urges States parties to fulfil their reporting obligations under article 40 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on time and to attend and participate in the consideration of the reports by the Human Rights Committee when so requested, and in this regard takes note of General Comment No. 30 adopted by the Committee;9 13. Also urges States parties to fulfil their reporting obligations under article 16 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on time and to attend and participate in the consideration of the reports by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights when so requested; 14. Further urges States parties to make use in their reports of gender-disaggregated data, and stresses the importance of taking fully into account a gender perspective in the implementation of the International Covenants on Human Rights at the national level, including in the national reports of States parties and in the work of the Human Rights Committee and of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 15. Strongly encourages States parties that have not yet submitted core documents to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to do so, and invites all States parties regularly to review and update their core documents; 12 16. Urges States parties to take duly into account, in implementing the provisions of the International Covenants on Human Rights, the recommendations and observations made during 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; 17. Invites States parties to give particular attention to the dissemination at the national level of their reports submitted to the Human Rights Committee and the _______________ 7 Ibid., Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/57/40). Ibid., Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/58/40). 9 See HRI/GEN/1/Rev.6. 10 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No. 2 (E/2002/22). 11 Ibid., 2003, Supplement No. 2 (E/2003/22). 12 See HRI/CORE/1 and addenda. 8 3