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The Committee took note of the Government's report and of the brief information which it contains in response to its previous request. It recognizes the difficulties being encountered and hopes that the Government will soon be able to provide a more detailed report on the application of the Convention including the information required in the report form. In addition, the Committee reiterates its particular interest in obtaining information on the following points:

1. The Committee notes that, despite the efforts made to collect labour market statistics, such statistics are still not available. It observes that the Government considers it necessary to undertake investigations to determine the scope of hidden unemployment, and requests the Government to describe, in its next report, any progress made with a view to making available as precise as possible an assessment of the situation of and trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment.

2. The Committee invites the Government to indicate the manner in which the measures to be taken with a view to promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment are decided and kept under review "within the framework of a coordinated economic and social policy", pursuant to the Law on the Employment of the Population of 27 December 1993 and in accordance with Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Please specify, in particular, the employment aims of the five-year plan designed to establish market economy conditions in the year 2000. Please indicate the perceived or anticipated effect on employment of the budgetary and monetary policies implemented in agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Please provide information on the contribution to the pursuit of employment aims made by the privatization programme, agricultural reform and the introduction of a social safety net with the financial support of the World Bank.

3. Please provide information on the implementation in practice of the Law on the Employment of the Population; on the employment services, the organization of public works, and as to training and vocational retraining of the unemployed. Please indicate whether measures have been adopted in response to the needs of particular categories of the population such as women, young people or handicapped workers.

4. Article 3. The Committee observes that section 20 of the Law on the Employment of the Population to which the Government refers deals only with the obligations of employers in implementing employment policy. It again requests the Government to indicate the provisions made to ensure that employers' representatives are consulted, on an equal footing with workers' unions, at all stages in the preparation and application of employment policy, in accordance with this essential provision of the Convention. Please indicate the measures taken or envisaged also to ensure consultation on employment policy measures with representatives of other sectors of the labour force, such as representatives of those employed in the rural or informal sectors. Please describe the practical methods of consultation with the representatives of all persons affected.

5. Point V of the report form. Please indicate whether ILO technical cooperation projects relating to employment promotion are being implemented or are envisaged.