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Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report received in November 2005. The Government again refers to the shortages and difficulties in the Employment Service Directorate and to the absence of measures designed to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. The Committee wishes to examine the manner in which the elected authorities took into account in 2005 the objectives of the Convention in preparing their 2004‑08 government programme and in the definition of priorities in the national strategic campaign against poverty. The Committee hopes that the ILO will be able to provide technical assistance designed to enable the Government and the social partners to put in place programmes intended to create job opportunities. The Committee trusts that these programmes will contribute to strengthening the employment services for young people, particularly those outside the capital, and hopes that in its next report the Government will be able to describe how reforms in the employment service have enabled it to fulfil its essential duty of ensuring the best possible organization of the employment market as an integral part of the national programme for the achievement and maintenance of full employment and use of productive resources (Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention), in cooperation with the social partners (Articles 4 and 5). In this respect, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate in its next report the efforts made to collect and analyse statistical data on the labour market and would supply any statistical information available on the number of public employment offices established, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified and the number of persons placed in employment by such offices (Part IV of the report form).