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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:

Article 6 of the Convention. In its previous comments, the Committee had drawn the Government's attention to the need to amend section 1 of the Family Benefits Act, No. 65-57 of 3 June 1965 so as to guarantee expressly both to nationals of the Central African Republic and to nationals of any other member State which has accepted the obligations of the Convention for branch (i) concerning family benefit, and with which there are migratory flows of the type envisaged in Article 6 of the Convention, the provision of family allowances in respect of children who reside in the territory of any such Member, under conditions and within limits to be agreed upon, by the Members concerned. (To date, the following countries have accepted branch (i): Bolivia, Cape Verde, France, Guinea, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Netherlands, Norway, Tunisia, Uruguay, and Viet Nam). The Committee notes the Government's statement in its report that the amendments needed to bring the legislation into conformity with the provisions of the Convention are expected to be adopted soon. The Committee again expresses the hope that the amendments will be adopted in the very near future to bring the national legislation into conformity with Article 6 on this point.

Articles 7 and 8. The Committee hopes that the Government will continue to supply information on the progress made towards the adoption and ratification of multilateral social security agreements at the regional level and towards the conclusion of bilateral social security agreements with other interested States that have ratified Convention No. 118, with a view to the maintenance of the rights as provided by Article 7 of the Convention.