E/2002/27 E/CN.6/2002/13 seventh session to reach consensus on the very important report of the Working Group so that the Council can take an appropriate action on the trends of communications on the rights of women within its mandate. Statement of disassociation submitted by Malaysia My delegation would like to request the statement we are about to make be officially recorded and submitted as part of the report of the Commission to the Economic and Social Council. My delegation disassociates itself from the decision of the Commission to reproduce the text of the report of the Working Group on Communications and to make it part of the recommendations the Commission is to submit to the Economic and Social Council on what action to take, as provided in paragraph 5 of Council resolution 1983/27. Before discussing the report of the Working Group itself, my delegation would like to state that the list of communications prepared by the secretariat and forwarded to the Commission is legally flawed. Seventeen out of the total number of 23 communications listed are inadmissible, and should not be considered by the Working Group. The seventeen communications are those transmitted to the secretariat of the Commission on the Status of Women by the secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights, and are communications received by the latter under the 1503 procedure. As the Commission is well aware, since 2000, there have been lengthy discussions both in this Commission and in the Commission on Human Rights on the illegality of the transmission of 1503 communications to this Commission. This discussion has not concluded, and until such time it has, the Working Group of the Commission on the Status of Women should not be made privy, much less consider, the 1503 communications. Regrettably, despite concerns raised by many delegations, those communications were submitted to the Working Group, which proceeded to consider them and subsequently made a finding. As is clearly provided for in paragraphs 4 (a) and (b) of the Economic and Social Council resolution 1983/27, the function of the Working Group is to consider all communications and replies from Governments with a view to bringing to the attention of the Commission those communications which reveal a consistent pattern of reliably attested injustices and discriminatory practices against women and to prepare a report which will indicate the categories in which communications are most frequently submitted to the Commission. Studying the report prepared by the Working Group, it becomes very clear that it has failed to fulfil its task, in the following areas: i. 64 It has not brought to the attention of the Commission communications which reveal a consistent pattern of injustices;