- 76 - Relations with other human rights treaty bodies 388. At its thirteenth session, the Committee held a discussion with the Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in the context of improving cooperation and relations with other treaty bodies. The Committee recommended that a seminar of representatives from all the treaty bodies should be organized, with the participation of outside experts, to discuss areas of mutual concern and to develop further strategies of cooperation. A discussion of methods of work would focus on the question of avoiding overlapping in the monitoring of the implementation of human rights treaties. 389. The Committee expressed its interest in the studies being conducted by an independent research group on developing indicators relating to the various articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Cooperation with specialized agencies 390. The Committee emphasized the great value which it attaches to cooperation with specialized agencies, whose contribution, in accordance with the Covenant, is of vital importance to the work of the Committee. In this context, it noted with appreciation the submission of the twentieth report of ILO. It regrets that UNESCO has submitted only one such report and FAO none at all during the Committee’s existence. 391. The Committee also noted with regret that, except for ILO, none of the specialized agencies was present at its thirteenth session. 392. The Committee reiterated its standing request for specialized agencies to attend its sessions and to contribute, both in writing and through oral statements, to its work in monitoring the implementation of the Covenant. The Committee extended its invitation to the specialized agencies concerned to attend and provide information to the Committee’s pre-sessional working group at its first meeting. Reinforcement of the secretariat servicing of the Committee 393. The Committee has, for a number of years, emphasized in its reports the need for adequate secretariat support and requested the Secretary-General to provide it with the services of a full-time expert in the field, in addition to its Secretary. The Committee is dissatisfied that additional professional assistance has not been provided to the Committee pursuant to its recommendations and to paragraph 16 of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/22, in which the Commission requested the Secretary-General to provide the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with additional means to deal effectively and in a timely manner with their increasing workload. In this regard, the Committee emphasizes that its workload has increased significantly over the past few years, and that for this reason the Economic and Social Council authorized it to hold two regular sessions per year and two pre-sessional working group meetings (eight weeks in total per year). This will also increase the workload of the secretariat and make even more urgent the Committee’s requests for more staff.