G. Staff resources 22. The greater complexity and more intensive pace of the Committee's operations, resulting from the increased number of States parties to the Covenant as well as from qualitative changes in the Committee's methods of work, have added significantly to the Secretariat's workload in providing substantive servicing to the Committee in relation to the monitoring of States' reports. The number of communications submitted to the Committee under the Optional Protocol has also grown markedly (see para. 615). Accordingly, the Committee requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps to ensure a substantial increase in the specialized staff assigned to service the Committee both in relation to the monitoring of States' reports and the Optional Protocol. Forty-fifth session H. Publicity for the work of the Committee 23. The Chairman, accompanied by members of the Bureau, held press briefings during each of the Committee's three sessions. The Committee noted with satisfaction the increased level of interest in its activities shown by the media and non-governmental organizations. I. Yearbook (Official Records) of the Human Eights Committee 24. With regard to the Yearbook (Official Records) of the Human Rights Committee, the Committee noted that the Yearbook has been published up to 1984. The Committee was informed that the manuscript for the Yearbook for 1985-1986 had just been submitted for processing. The actual backlog in publication was thus eight years. It was the Committee's wish that work on the Yearbook be accelerated with a view to eliminating the existing backlog as soon as possible. The Committee expressed the hope that in the future the Yearbook would be published on a regular and timely basis. J. Adoption of the report 25. At its 1174th to 1176th meetings, held on 30 and 31 July 1992, the Committee considered the draft of its sixteenth annual report, covering its activities at the forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions, held in 1991 and 1992, The report, as amended in the course of the discussion, was unanimously adopted by the Committee.