¹ The third and fourth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

² The fifth and sixth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

³ The seventh and eighth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

⁴ The ninth and tenth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

⁵ The eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

⁶ In its concluding observations adopted on 21 August 2002, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended that the fifteenth periodic report be submitted jointly with the sixteenth periodic report on 17 November 2005.

⁷ The fifteenth and sixteenth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

⁸ In its concluding observations adopted on 17 August 2006, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination requested that additional information be submitted within one year, and recommended that the seventeenth periodic report be submitted jointly with the eighteenth periodic report, due on 17 November 2009.

⁹ The seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports were submitted together as one document.

¹⁰ In its concluding observations adopted on 10 March 2011, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination requested that additional information be submitted within one year, and recommended that the nineteenth and twentieth periodic reports be submitted together in a single document, due on 17 November 2013.