A/RES/57/236 analytical support and technical assistance to developing countries in respect of their effective participation in multilateral trade negotiations; 10. Encourages efforts to promote cooperation international organizations on commodity issues; between relevant 11. Calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, within existing budgetary resources, supplemented by voluntary contributions as appropriate, to designate independent eminent persons to examine and report on commodity issues, including the volatility in commodity prices and declining terms of trade and the impact these have on the development efforts of commodity-dependent developing countries, for consideration by the Trade and Development Board at its executive session and, subsequently, by the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session; 12. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on world commodity trends and prospects, taking into account, inter alia, the current report thereon 9 and the subsequent consideration requested in paragraph 11 above; 13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “Commodities”. 78th plenary meeting 20 December 2002 5