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The Committee took note of the two successive reports submitted by the Government for the periods ending June 1995 and June 1996. It notes with interest the policy adopted to combat poverty and promote job creation appearing in the draft five-year plan (1996-2000) and invites the Government to provide, in its next report, as complete information as possible on the implementation of this policy with reference to the questions contained in the report form and to the following points.

1. The Committee notes the project to establish employment promotion centres designed to strengthen labour market information services and to promote vocational training and the employment of jobseekers. Please provide any information available on the establishment of these centres and the nature and scope of their activities. Please indicate whether particular training and employment measures are implemented in order to meet the needs of people with particular difficulties, such as the handicapped, displaced persons, members of the armed forces who have been demobilized or young people in search of their first job.

2. The Committee notes with interest the implementation of ILO technical cooperation projects designed to further the aims of the Convention. Please indicate any results which have been obtained through these projects, by specifying to what extent they have allowed their beneficiaries to find stable employment. Please indicate the action taken as a result of these projects (Part V of the report form).

3. With reference to its previous request, the Committee recalls the importance attached to giving full effect to the provisions of Article 3 of the Convention, which provides that representatives of the persons affected by the measures to be taken, and in particular representatives of employers and workers, shall be consulted concerning employment policies, "with a view to taking fully into account their experience and views and securing their full cooperation in formulating and enlisting support for such policies". The Committee hopes that the Government's next report will contain information on the way in which such consultations are guaranteed.