- 77 - 394. In the light of the foregoing, the Committee requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that the necessary measures are taken to implement the recommendations referred to above and report on the action taken to the Committee at its fourteenth session, in May 1996. Support of non-governmental organizations for the Committee 395. The Committee emphasized once more the importance which it attaches to cooperation with non-governmental organizations. In this connection, it notes with satisfaction their increasing participation in the Committee’s work and the constructive contribution made at the thirteenth session, above all by national NGOs. 396. The Committee notes that, since its inception, the NGOs which have participated in its work specialize essentially in human rights issues; few NGOs or groups concerned with development have shown an interest in the Committee’s work, or even in the Covenant itself. Yet development issues are closely tied in with the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 397. The Committee therefore considers that NGOs engaged in the protection of human rights should work together with development NGOs and envisage establishing a liaison body that would work on economic, social and cultural rights. The objectives of such a body could include the following: - To coordinate activities connected with economic, social and cultural rights among actors outside the United Nations; - To cooperate with the United Nations Centre for Human Rights; - To provide help and assistance to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in monitoring the implementation of the Covenant. This could be done in a way similar to the assistance provided by NGOs to the Committee on the Rights of the Child; - To provide assistance to national NGOs working for the protection of economic, social and cultural rights and to development NGOs, so as to help them institute programmes which guarantee for the beneficiaries the exercise of their economic, social and cultural rights, in conformity with the provisions of the Covenant. Publicity for the Committee’s work 398. The Committee welcomed the efforts of the Department of Public Information to publicize the Committee’s work, following decisions taken at a meeting with Ms. T. Gastaut, Director of the Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, during the Committee’s twelfth session. The Committee expressed appreciation for the fact that a detailed background press release, highlighting aspects of the country reports under consideration and indicating the main issues to be dealt with, had been issued prior to the