Committee against Torture

Forty-fifth session

Summary record of the first part (public)* of the 980th meeting

Held at the Palais Wilson, Geneva, on Friday, 19 November 2010, at 10 a.m.

Chairperson:Mr. Grossman

Contents

Organizational and other matters

Reports to be considered at the forty-sixth and forty-seventh sessions

The meeting was called to order at 10.05 a.m.

Organizational and other matters

Reports to be considered at the forty-sixth and forty-seventh sessions

The Chairperson announced that the Committee would hold two four-week sessions in 2011. The forty-sixth session would run from 9 May to 3 June 2011 and the forty-seventh session from 31 October to 25 November 2011. The Committee would consider setting up a working group on petitions that would make recommendations concerning such matters as admissibility. He then invited the Secretary of the Committee to read out the list of State party reports to be considered at the Committee’s forty-sixth and forty-seventh sessions.

Mr. Nataf (Secretary of the Committee) said that the States parties whose reports would be reviewed at the forty-sixth session and the first and second country rapporteurs for each report were: Ireland: Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga and Ms. Kleopas; Ghana: Mr. Grossman and Ms. Sveaass; Turkmenistan: Ms. Gaer and Mr. Grossman; Kuwait: Mr. Bruni and Ms. Belmir; Monaco: Ms. Belmir and Ms. Gaye; Slovenia: Mr. Mariño Menéndez and Mr. Wang Xuexian; Finland: Mr. Mariño Menéndez and Mr. Wang Xuexian; Mauritius: Mr. Gallegos Chiriboga and Mr. Bruni.

The States parties whose reports would be considered at the forty-seventh session were: Djibouti, Madagascar, Greece, Paraguay, Morocco, Bulgaria, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Germany.

The public meeting rose at 10.10 a.m.