70. After the draft platform for action was approved, statements were made by the representatives of Pakistan, France (on behalf of the European Union) and the Sudan. In addition, the representative of Guatemala expressed the following reservations on the draft platform for action. "At the conclusion of the thirty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which considered, as the third item on its agenda, preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, and negotiated the draft Platform for Action, the Government of Guatemala requests, in view of the provisions of its Constitution and domestic legislation, that the following statement be reproduced in full in the report of this session, considering that delegations will have an opportunity to review the draft Platform for Action in its entirety at Beijing. The Government of Guatemala intends to analyse the current text in terms of its compatibility with a series of commitments and positions which Guatemala has assumed by virtue of: - The Alliance for the Sustainable Development of Central America, established during the Central American Environmental Summit for Sustainable Development, held at Managua, Nicaragua, on 12 October 1994 (document A/49/580-S/1994/1217 of 27 October 1994); - The Tegucigalpa International Declaration on Peace and Development in Central America and the Commitments on Peace and Development made by the Central American Presidents at the International Conference on Peace and Development in Central America, held at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on 24 and 25 October 1994 (document A/49/639-S/1994/1247 of 4 November 1994); - The reservations submitted by Guatemala on 13 September 1994 concerning the Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development, held at Cairo, and the documents referred to therein; - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the principles and provisions of the Constitution and domestic laws of the Republic of Guatemala and the guidelines formulated at the fifteenth Summit of Central American Presidents, held at Guácimo, Costa Rica; - Guatemala’s reservations concerning the Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, held at Copenhagen, Denmark, in March 1995; - The decision handed down by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Guatemala on 13 March 1992, promulgated in record No. 84-92; - With respect to the draft Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, discussed at this session, the Government of Guatemala wishes to place on record its reservations regarding the word "gender", inasmuch as this term has not been defined in writing by the secretariat, as requested by the Guatemalan delegation and other distinguished delegations; and that it wishes to see how this term is used in the Spanish version of the draft." -47-