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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA SECOND PERIODICAL REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS ANNEX 1 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL PACT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS IN KOSOVO Introduction 1. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 34th session, in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth meeting held on May 2 and 3, 2005, discussed the Initial Report on Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the state union of Serbia and Montenegro in the period between 1990 and 2002. 2. Having taken into consideration the explanation offered by the national delegation of Serbia and Montenegro at the time, about the inability to submit report on performance of their duties related to the state of human rights in Kosovo on the ground, in its Concluding Observations, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights specified the following: “The Committee takes note of the State party’s explanation about its inability to report on measures adopted and progress made in achieving the observance of the rights recognized in the Covenant with regard to the province of Kosovo and Metohija, where civil authority is exercised by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo under Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999. The State party suggested that the Committee should invite the Mission to submit to the Committee a supplementary report on the implementation of the Covenant in Kosovo. The Committee, however, calls upon the State party to request the Secretary-General to provide it with information collected by the Mission, in accordance with paragraph 11 (j) of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999), on the enjoyment in Kosovo since 1999 of the rights recognized in the Covenant and, without prejudice to the legal status of Kosovo, on the basis of such information to supplement