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Ambassador Boniface Chidyausiku (Zimbabwe)
B.vi Arrangements for future reviews
51. The Chairperson recalled that, at the previous meeting, the Council had agreed to take up the review of the legislation of Moldova at its first meeting in 2002, i.e. at its meeting scheduled for 5 to 7 March 2002.4 Therefore, in accordance with the procedures for the review of legislation, he proposed that the Council set the following target dates for the submission of questions and answers in this review: - questions should be submitted to Moldova, with a copy to the Secretariat, by 20 December 2001, i.e. 10 weeks before the meeting in March 2002; and - responses to questions posed within that deadline should be submitted by 5 February 2002, i.e. four weeks before the meeting in March 2002. He suggested that the same date for responses to questions posed should also apply to Nigeria and to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the review of whose legislation the Council had agreed to postpone until the meeting in March 2002.
IP/C/M/34

4 See under "Other business" below.