On page four, again, I feel that HIV/AIDS infection, the exposure of some girls, these are not just girls, but also boys. I understand that in some countries they also have this problem among boys.

On page five it is just an observation I see that you have improved on the last sentence, "We encourage interested, developed and developing country partners to allocate on mutual basis 20 percent of official development assistance and 20 percent of the national budget for basic social programs."

I do not know whether you still want to put the sentence: "maybe accomplished by reducing military expenditures." As you know, this is a very debatable suggestion. If we put cutting of military expenditures, normally that will become very sensitive. So do you want to just say: "The countries should try their best to spread out this budget instead of cutting military expenditures."

RAPPORTEUR GENERAL (HON. NAFSIAH MBOI) :

Thank you, Ms. Shoon. Let me answer your concerns.

The whole document clearly states that we are not only concerned about women's status or women's issues. That is why m the title, we have used "gender" as well as "women." A11 over the document we are actually inserting "head of family , "relations of men and women", and even having "children and adolescents", both girls and boys. So for sure, it is not the case. If you want to make specific recommendations to make it clearer, we would be happy to receive that.

Your second comment, on page 3 second paragraph, adolescents really are boys and girls. We say there "to provide adolescents with full information, education and services related to their reproductive rights and sexual behavior." We do agree that both boys and girls are very important.

Your fourth comment about unsafe abortion, the fifth paragraph is actually the way out. Which is, we have to promote, we have to pledge our strong commitment to promote expanded and improved availability and utilization of gender-sensitive reproductive health and family planning services across the region.

You may remember that in Cairo, in the ICCPD, we agreed that we should not tackle unsafe abortion at the end, but we have to prevent unwanted pregnancy. That is why this sentence is there.

Your fourth comment on page four, HIV/AIDS, you are right. It is not only girls, and actually that sentence does not say so. It says: "...explosive spread of STDS and HIV/AIDS infection."

So, maybe, shall we put that between "new reproductive technologies and sexual abuse." If we put it there then, maybe, it does not seem to be only women. Okay. Thank you.