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The Committee notes with regret that the Government has not provided any information on the application of the Convention since its last report received in June 2004, which indicated, once again, that the draft Employment Bill which, according to the Government, should give effect to the Convention, has still not been adopted. Recalling that under the terms of Article 1 of the Convention, the provisions of the Convention are required to be given effect by laws or regulations (in so far as they are not made effective by collective agreements, arbitration awards or court decisions, or in such other manner as may be consistent with national practice), the Committee observes that the reform of the labour law has benefited from continued ILO assistance, particularly in the context of project UGA/99/003 financed by UNDP. In this context, the Committee considers it particularly regrettable that, more than 17 years after the entry into force of the Convention, the Government has still not provided the relevant information on its application. The Committee trusts that the Government will be in a position to provide a detailed report containing full particulars on the application of each of the provisions of the Convention in both law and practice.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2008.]