- 64 - 337. The Committee decides to bring to the attention of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights any possible projects for which the proposed voluntary fund for human rights education might be employed, or for which other technical assistance funds should be made available. 338. The Committee decides to designate one of its members, Mrs. Virginia Bonoan-Dandan, to assume primary responsibility with regard to education issues, in order to build further expertise, advise the Committee on developments, engage in an exchange of information with other concerned agencies and organizations, conduct studies in this area as deemed necessary by the Committee, and present to the Committee proposals of a general and country-specific nature which the Committee may submit to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for consideration. B. Twelfth session, 15 May 1995 The interpretation and practical application of the obligations incumbent on States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 339. At its tenth session, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights decided to devote a day of general discussion at its twelfth session to the interpretation and practical application of the obligations incumbent on States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/1995/22, para. 400). At its eleventh session, the Committee indicated that the focus of that day of general discussion was designed to assist the new members of the Committee and to provide an opportunity for the Committee as a whole to discuss the most appropriate and effective ways of promoting compliance by States parties with their obligations (ibid. para. 410). 340. At its 21st and 22nd meetings on 18 May 1995, the Committee held a day of general discussion on the above-mentioned subject. 341. In addition to the members of the Committee, representatives of the following intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations participated in the discussion: UNESCO, FIAN International, American Association of Jurists and Habitat International Coalition. A scholar from the University of Leicester (United Kingdom) was also present. 342. During the discussion, a wide range of substantive and procedural issues relating to the obligations incumbent on States parties to the Covenant, as well as a number of issues concerning the Committee’s methods of work, were addressed. 343. With regard to the first group of issues, emphasis was placed in the course of the discussion on the following: a comparison and analysis of the similar provisions contained in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the nature of the obligations incumbent on States parties under each instrument; which rights set forth in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were of direct application and which could be implemented progressively by States parties; the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights; the desirability of drafting an optional