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The Committee notes that no report has been received from the Government. 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 following matters raised in its previous direct request:

1. Referring also to its observation under the Convention, the Committee notes that the documents submitted to the Asian Regional Seminar on Children in Bondage refer to the adoption in 1992 of a National Children's Charter laying down policy guidelines aimed at the development of laws, regulations and practices relating to children and providing for the setting up of a monitoring committee. The Committee again expresses the hope that the Government will provide a copy of the National Children's Charter, of any laws or regulations already adopted thereunder which have a bearing on the Convention was well as information on the constitution of and activities carried out by the monitoring committee.

The Committee also again requests the Government to provide a copy of recent reports and surveys made by the Women and Children Bureau of the Police Department as well as by the Department of Probation and Child Care Services and by the Women and Children Bureau of the Department of Labour.

2. The Committee had taken note of information of recruitment and trafficking of Sri Lankan children for camel riding in the Middle East (ILO, Child Labour in Sri Lanka, 1992). The Committee would appreciate that the Government provide information on this problem and on measures taken or envisaged with a view to halt this traffic.

3. In its previous comments the Committee noted the information supplied by the Government regarding the possibility of career members of the armed forces to leave the service on their own initiative and it requested the Government to provide further details on the length of service for persons who have accepted to serve for a stipulated period, the amount of payment required from persons serving for such a period who apply for resignation as well as on the criteria used by the President to allow officers to resign, including the number of cases where applications for resignation by officers had been rejected. The Committee noted that the information by the Government in its report for the period ending 30 June 1991 was not different from that previously provided. The Committee again expresses the hope that the Government will send with its next report copies of the rules and regulations governing these matters as well as the details previously requested.