(e) To promote the effective and wide participation of representatives of civil society in decision-making processes related to the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights, including through efforts to identify and strengthen good governance practices; 3. Welcomes the six recent ratifications of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and calls upon the States parties to the Covenant: (a) To withdraw reservations incompatible with the object and purpose of the Covenant and to consider reviewing other reservations with a view to withdrawing them; (b) To submit their reports to the Committee in a regular and timely manner; (c) To promote a concerted national effort to ensure the participation of representatives of all sectors of civil society in the process of preparation of their periodic reports to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in the implementation of the recommendations of the Committee; (d) To ensure that the Covenant is taken into account in all of their relevant national and international policy-making processes; 4. Recalls that international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social and cultural character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is one of the purposes of the United Nations, and affirms that wider international cooperation would contribute to lasting progress in implementing economic, social and cultural rights; 5. Notes with interest the work carried out by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to assist States parties in fulfilling their obligations, including through the development and adoption of general comments, in order to assist in clarifying the content and scope of the articles of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and, in this regard, takes note of the recent adoption of general comments No. 16 on article 3 (the equal right of men