International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol thereto, and its principal task was to examine the periodic reports of the States parties. Since Sri Lanka's accession in mid-1980 to the two International , Covenants, his Government had, within the resources available to it, taken positive steps to make the people more aware of the protection and promotion of human rights. To that end, among other measures, regional seminars on the subject had been held, and the question of human rights had been introduced in the curricula of universities and schools. 18. His delegation supported the measures proposed at the meeting of the chairmen of human rights organs (A/39/484) for improving the exchange of information among the various organs. With regard to the co-ordination of guidelines for the submission of reports, Sri Lanka agreed that the streamlining of the i~troductory ; ... A/C. 3/39/SR.49 English Page 8 (Mr. Rajapakse, Sri Lanka) part of all guidelines and the preparation of a country profile would facilitate the work of the States parties and the organs concerned. His delegation also considered it important that the Chairman of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against WOmen should participate in future meetingsJ it agreed that such meetings should be held regularly on an annual or biennial basis and that the Secretary-General should urge States which had not done so to ratify the International Covenants. 19. With a population composed of followers of four major world religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, Sri Lanka believed that religious harmony was vitally important to the life of the nation and to the spiritual and material well-being of its citizens. For that reason, Sri Lanka attached great importance to item 95. The Constitution guaranteed every person freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and, by means of other pertinent measures, the 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be focused on the promotion and protection of human rights, specifically in the context of Sri Lanka's international commitments and domestic measures to ensure religious harmony and freedom. The discussion revolves around the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Optional Protocol, and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

**Category**
Education, Humanitarian aid and relief, Culture