A/RES/57/215 19. Calls upon the Commission on Human Rights to continue to study this question as a matter of priority and to take any steps it may deem necessary to the pursuit of the task of the Working Group and to the follow-up to its recommendations when it considers the report to be submitted by the Group to the Commission at its fifty-ninth session; 20. Renews its requests to the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Working Group with all of the facilities it requires to perform its functions, especially for carrying out missions and following them up; 21. Recalls Economic and Social Council decision 2001/221 of 4 June 2001 in which the Council endorsed the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to create an intersessional open-ended working group, with the mandate to prepare a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance; 22. Welcomes, in this regard, the report of the independent expert charged with examining the existing international criminal and human rights framework for the protection of persons from enforced or involuntary disappearances, 8 which, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/46 of 23 April 2001, 9 will be presented to the intersessional working group established pursuant to that resolution, at its first session; 23. Welcomes the decision of the Commission to convene the intersessional working group before its fifty-ninth session, to prepare, for consideration and adoption by the General Assembly, a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance, on the basis of the Declaration adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/133, in the light of the work of the independent expert and taking into account, inter alia, the draft international convention on the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance, 10 transmitted by the Subcommission in its resolution 1998/25 of 26 August 1998; 11 24. Requests the Secretary-General to keep it informed of the steps he takes to secure the widespread dissemination and promotion of the Declaration; 25. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to it at its fifty-ninth session a report on the steps taken to implement the present resolution; 26. Decides to consider the question of enforced disappearances, in particular the implementation of the Declaration, at its fifty-ninth session, under the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”. 77th plenary meeting 18 December 2002 _______________ 8 E/CN.4/2002/71. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 3 (E/2001/23), chap. II, sect. A. 10 E/CN.4/Sub.2/1998/19, annex. 9 11 4 See E/CN.4/1999/4-E/CN.4/Sub.2/1998/45.