A/RES/53/198 Page 5 22. Decides that the themes for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty in 1999 and 2000 shall be, respectively, “Women and the eradication of poverty” and “Globalization and the eradication of poverty”; 23. Requests the Secretary-General to report to it at its fifty-fourth session on progress made in the implementation of measures, recommendations and activities related to the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, including recommendations for possible action and initiatives towards the new millennium and proposals for better coordination of action taken by the United Nations system; 24. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006)”. 91st plenary meeting 15 December 1998