72. The Chairperson, responding to the question of the representative of Argentina, said that, to date, the Secretariat had received responses from Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, the European Communities and eleven of their member States, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States, making a total of 29 Members. As to how to proceed with discussions under this agenda item, there was no uniform view. Some Members believed that the EC proposal for the Secretariat to prepare a synopsis of the various responses could assist the Council in its deliberations on the matter, whilst others, by contrast, had indicated that the Council should devote more time to the analysis of each set of responses. He suggested an intermediate path according to which the Secretariat would, before the next meeting, present an outline of how it would intend to order the information in such a manner as to facilitate Members' understanding, while not losing the diversity of elements indicated in the various responses.
