39. The Chairperson said that, in the informal consultations that he had held, there had been general support for requesting the Secretariat to prepare a paper summarizing the responses to the Checklist of Questions (IP/C/13 and Add.1) on the basis of the outline contained in informal document No. 2104, dated 13 April 1999, on the understanding that it would be made explicit that the paper would be without prejudice to the rights and obligations of Members and that its purpose was merely to facilitate an understanding of the more detailed information that had been provided in national responses to the Checklist. He proposed that the Council request the Secretariat to prepare the document on this basis.
