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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. The Committee notes the brief information contained in the Government's report. It requests the Government to supply a full report containing detailed information on the implementation of the Convention.

2. Please supply information on the situation, level and trends of employment, unemployment and underemployment, both in urban and rural areas, with regard to specific categories of workers, such as, women, young persons and disabled workers. Please supply the information requested previously on the plans and programmes that have been adopted or are being formulated, the employment objectives set out therein and the extent to which they are being achieved. Please indicate the measures taken in order to satisfy the needs of the specific categories referred to above.

3. In reply to its previous direct request, the Government indicates that the vocational training body has been abolished and that its duties have been entrusted to the labour and vocational training department of the Ministry of Labour. The Committee refers to its direct request on Convention No. 142 and requests the Government to supply detailed information in its next report on the activities of the vocational training centres set up in Baghdad and in the governorates, and, more generally, on the measures that have been taken to co-ordinate education and training policies with employment prospects.