- 71 - that, for example, in recent consideration of reports submitted by Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom, no information had been provided to the Committee by domestic NGOs. For that reason, it requested its secretariat to make a greater effort to inform relevant NGO groups based in States whose reports were scheduled for consideration by the Committee. Such notification should be undertaken at the earliest possible moment on the basis of a letter from the Chairperson inviting NGOs to submit relevant information, preferably in time to be taken into account by the pre-sessional working group. The letter should be accompanied by a copy of the report of the State party, a copy of chapter III of the Committee’s annual report outlining the procedures followed by the Committee, and any other pertinent information. Consideration of the situation in non-reporting States parties 366. In accordance with its long-standing policy of requesting reports from States parties which ratified the Covenant many years ago and have failed to submit any reports, as required under the Covenant, the Committee decided to consider at its fourteenth session the situation in Guinea, which ratified in 1978 and whose initial report was due in 1980, and in Sri Lanka, which ratified in 1980 and whose initial report was due in 1982. The Committee expressed the hope that each of those States would be able to submit a report as soon as possible, but decided that it would, in the absence of any such report, proceed to a detailed examination of the situation in each State party on the basis of all available information. Working methods 367. The Committee agreed that, despite the time pressures involved, it would consider at its thirteenth session reports from five States parties, namely Ukraine, Colombia, Norway, Mauritius and Algeria. It resolved to consider making use of sessional working groups for purposes yet to be determined. Follow-up 368. In view of the importance of ensuring that the all the specific recommendations it made, both those and those relating to the reports of States parties, its secretariat to provide it at each session with a indication of all outstanding requests of a specific had not been received. B. Committee followed up on relating to its own work the Committee requested document giving a brief nature to which responses Decisions adopted by the Committee at its thirteenth session Methods of work 369. The Committee was informed by Mr. A. Bahi, Chief of the Conference Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, about the implications of the grave budgetary crisis besetting the Organization, including for the activities of the human rights treaty bodies. In response to this situation, the Committee will make every effort to reduce costs, without jeopardizing the quality of its work. The Committee draws attention to the fact that it decided several years ago to discontinue its earlier practice of including in its annual report to ECOSOC summaries of its dialogue with the representatives of reporting States. Consequently, the size of these reports has been reduced