A/RES/60/149 appropriateness of measures taken in those circumstances can be assessed, and underlining the exceptional and temporary nature of any such derogations; 7 7. Encourages States parties to consider limiting the extent of any reservations that they lodge to the International Covenants on Human Rights and the Optional Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to formulate any reservations as precisely and narrowly as possible, and to regularly review such reservations with a view to withdrawing them so as to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the relevant treaty; Welcomes the annual reports of the Human Rights Committee submitted 8. to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth 8 and sixtieth 9 sessions, and takes note of the General Comments adopted by the Committee, including the most recent, General Comment No. 31 on the nature of the general legal obligation imposed on States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 10 9. Also welcomes the reports of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its thirtieth and thirty-first sessions 11 and on its thirty-second and thirty-third sessions, 12 and takes note of the General Comments adopted by the Committee, including the most recent, General Comment No. 16 on the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights, adopted by the Committee at its thirty-fourth session; 13 10. Expresses regret at the number of States parties that have failed to fulfil their reporting obligations under the International Covenants on Human Rights, and urges States parties to fulfil their reporting obligations on time and to attend and participate in the consideration of the reports by the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights when so requested; 11. Urges States parties to make use in their reports of sex-disaggregated data, and stresses the importance of integrating 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; 12. 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 while bearing in mind the current discussion on the elaboration of an expanded core document; 13. 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 _______________ 7 See, for example, General Comment No. 29, adopted by the Human Rights Committee, on article 4 of the Covenant regarding derogations from the provisions of the Covenant during a state of emergency (Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/56/40), vol. I, annex VI). 8 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/59/40). 9 Ibid., Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/60/40). 10 Ibid., Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/59/40), vol. I, annex III. 11 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2004, Supplement No. 2 (E/2004/22). 12 Ibid., 2005, Supplement No. 2 (E/2005/22). 13 E/C.12/2005/4. 3