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The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government on the ratification of Conventions Nos. 121, 131, 135, 140 and 161 of the ILO. It however notes that the Government's second 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:

The Committee notes the Government's first report on the application of the Convention. It notes also the report received in October 1995. It notes that the consultations required by the Convention are held by means of written communications (the Government refers to Paragraph 2(3)(d) of the Tripartite Consultation (Activities of the International Labour Organization) Recommendation, 1976 (No. 152)). The Committee also notes that the Government has set up a Tripartite Commission on Convention No. 144. In this respect, it requests the Government to continue providing detailed information on the application of the Convention, including precise information on the following points:

Article 5, paragraph 1(c), of the Convention. The Committee trusts that the Government will continue to supply information on consultations held to examine the measures which could be taken to promote the implementation and ratification, as appropriate, of other basic ILO Conventions, which it indicates are the inspiration for national legislation.

Article 5, paragraph 1(e). The Government states that during the period covered by the report on the application of Convention No. 144 no Conventions have been denounced. The Committee requests the Government to include precise information in its next report on the possibility of holding consultations, within the framework of the Tripartite Commission, on the denunciation of the Night Work (Bakeries) Convention, 1925 (No. 20), to which the Government has referred in its reports on the application of that Convention, as well as on the denunciation of the Old-Age Insurance (Industry) Convention, 1933 (No. 35), and the ratification of any other Convention, the possibility of which was mentioned by a Government representative to the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards in June 1995.

Article 6. Please include precise information in the next report on the consultations that have been held with the representative organizations on the possibility of issuing an annual report on the working of the procedures provided for in the Convention.