A/RES/57/40 so in order to help the Community strengthen its capacities in the area of the maintenance of peace and security and reconstruction; 4. Commends the international community for the financial, technical and material support given to the Economic Community of Central African States; 5. Emphasizes the importance of close cooperation between the United Nations system, including the Bretton Woods institutions, and the Economic Community of Central African States; 6. Once again requests the international community to consider seriously increases in its financial, technical and material support to the Economic Community of Central African States to enable it to implement fully its programme of action and to respond to the needs of the subregion for reconstruction and recovery; 7. Calls upon all Member States and the international community to consider contributing to the efforts of the Economic Community of Central African States to achieve economic integration and development, promote democracy and human rights and consolidate peace and security in Central Africa and to implement the goals, targets and commitments of the United Nations conferences and the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 in particular, to strengthen the role of women in the development process; 8. Urges the international community and the United Nations agencies to continue to provide those countries of the Economic Community of Central African States in which a process of national reconstruction is taking place with appropriate assistance to consolidate their efforts towards democratization and the consolidation of the rule of law and to support their national development programmes; 9. Invites the United Nations and the international community to coordinate their efforts to assist the Central African States in establishing demobilization, disarmament and reintegration programmes; 10. Declares itself convinced of the importance to conflict resolution of the implementation of global, integrated and concerted strategies on questions relating to peace, security and development, and aware of the value of international cooperation and efforts to restore and maintain peace, and emphasizes that the international community should continue to help those countries which receive refugees to meet the resulting economic, social, humanitarian and environmental challenges; 11. Urges the United Nations and the international community to help to strengthen the means existing in the region to ensure that the Economic Community of Central African States has the necessary capacity with regard to prevention, monitoring, early warning and peacekeeping operations; 12. Invites the United Nations system and the international community to support the creation of special economic zones and development corridors in the Economic Community of Central African States, with the active participation of the private sector; 13. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to enhance contacts with the Economic Community of Central African States with a view to encouraging cooperation between the United Nations system and the Community; 14. Invites the international community in this regard, in the light of the statement by the President of the Security Council of 31 October 2002 on the 3