A/RES/50/137 Page 3 5. Commends the Committee for its continuous efforts to improve its contribution to the prevention of racial discrimination, including early warning and urgent procedures, and welcomes its relevant decisions and action thereon; 9/ 6. Welcomes decision 9 (46) of 17 March 1995 adopted by the Committee, entitled "Contribution of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education" and general recommendation XIX (47) on article 3 of the Convention; 10/ 7. Urges all States which have not yet ratified or acceded to the Convention to do so as soon as possible; 8. Encourages States to limit the extent of any reservation they lodge to the Convention and to formulate any reservation as precisely and as narrowly as possible while ensuring that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention or otherwise contrary to international law; 9. Expresses its profound concern at the fact that a number of States parties have still not fulfilled their financial obligations, as shown in the report of the Secretary-General; 11/ 10. Urges States parties to accelerate their domestic ratification procedures with regard to the amendment to the Convention concerning the financing of the Committee and expeditiously to notify the Secretary-General in writing of their agreement to the amendment, as decided upon at the Fourteenth Meeting of States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 3/ on 15 January 1992 and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/111 of 16 December 1992; 11. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Committee on the work of its forty-sixth and forty-seventh sessions; 12/ 12. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure adequate financial arrangements and appropriate means to enable the functioning of the Committee; 13. Calls upon States parties to fulfil their obligations under article 9, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to submit in due time their periodic reports on measures taken to implement the Convention and to pay their outstanding contributions; 14. Strongly appeals to all States parties which are in arrears to fulfil their outstanding financial obligations under article 8, paragraph 6, of the Convention; 15. Requests the Secretary-General to invite those States parties which are in arrears to pay the amounts in arrears and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session; 9/ Ibid., chap. II. 10/ Ibid., chap. I, paras. 17 and 18, and annexes III and VII. 11/ A/50/467, annex I. 12/ A/50/18. /...