A/RES/63/151 15. Recommends that Member States reaffirm the role of United Nations focal points on ageing, increase technical cooperation efforts, expand the role of the regional commissions on ageing issues and provide added resources for those efforts, facilitate the coordination of national and international non-governmental organizations on ageing and enhance cooperation with academia on a research agenda on ageing; 16. Reiterates the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, as well as the result of its first review and appraisal cycle, and in that connection encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request; 17. Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 4 take into account the situation of older persons; 3F 18. Requests the Secretary-General to translate the Guide to the National Implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing 5 into all official languages of the United Nations so that it can be used more effectively by Member States, and encourages Member States to translate the Guide into their respective languages when appropriate; 4F 19. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including information on the promotion and protection of human rights as they pertain to older persons. 70th plenary meeting 18 December 2008 _______________ 4 5 See resolution 55/2. United Nations publication, Sales No. E.08.IV.2. 3