text: Engl ish Page 2 3. By its resorution 391135 of 14 Decenber 1984, Ehe cenerar Assembty again urgedall states that. had not yet done go to becone parties to both covenancs, as cell asto consider acceding to the optional protocol to the rnternational covenanE onCivil and Political Rights and invited the SEatea partiea to the Ihternatlonalcovenant on Civil and Political Rights to consider making the declaration providedfor in article 41 of the CovenanC. The Assembly a16o requested Ebe Secretary-General to subnit to it. at its fort.ieth session a report on the status of Ehe Covenants and the Optional Protocol. 4. As at. I Septenber 1985, t.he International Covenant on Economic, Social andCultura1 Rights bad been raEified or acceded to by 84 States. the Intefnationalcovenant on civil and poli t.ical Rights had been ratified or acceded to by g0 statesand Ehe Optional Protocol to the InEernaEional Covenan! on Civil and political Rights had been ratif i.ed or acceded to by 35 States. In attdit.ion, 9 S[aCes hadsigned the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural. Rights, l0staees had signed the rnternational covenant on civil and polilicaL Rights and7 scaEes bad signed the optional protocol. The tist ot sta[es which have slgned,ratified or acceded to the covenanBs and tbe opt,ionar protocor and the dates oftheir signatures, ratificaEions or accessions appear in anneres I to III of thepresent report.
analysis: The text appears to be related to international human rights agreements and the status of their ratification or accession by various countries. It mentions the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The text also mentions the number of states that have signed, ratified, or acceded to these agreements.