I. Appointment of the members of the Working Group on Communications on the Status of Women 16. At the 1st meeting, on 15 March, the Commission decided to establish a Working Group to consider, under agenda item 5, communications regarding the status of women, pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/27. The following five members, nominated by their regional groups, were appointed: Lyudmila-Bozhkova (Bulgaria) Feng Cui (China) Clara Inés Vargas (Colombia) Regina Tavares da Silva (Portugal) Wahid Ben Amor (Tunisia) J. Establishment of an informal contact group on gender 17. At the 19th meeting, on 7 April 1995, after hearing statements by the Chairperson and the representatives of Australia, Pakistan, the Sudan, Chile, Namibia and the Philippines and the observers for Benin, Egypt, the United States of America, Canada, Guatemala, Morocco and Norway, the Commission decided to establish an informal contact group to seek agreement on the commonly understood meaning of the term "gender" in the context of the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (for the text of the decision, see chap. I, sect. C, Commission decision 39/3). -73-