A/RES/55/35 Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in its capacity as the Board of Trustees of the Institute, 3 in which hope was expressed that the United Nations subvention to the Institute would be restored to its pre-1996 level and adjusted for inflation, 1. Welcomes the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; 2. Recognizes the importance and high quality of the work of the Institute; 3. Reiterates its conviction that the Institute should continue to conduct independent research on problems relating to disarmament and security and to undertake specialized research requiring a high degree of expertise; 4. Requests all Member States to consider making financial contributions to the Institute in order to ensure its viability and the quality of its work over the long term; 5. Recommends that the Secretary-General seek ways to increase the funding of the Institute, within existing resources. 69th plenary meeting 20 November 2000 B R EPORT OF THE C ONFERENCE ON D ISARMAMENT The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4 Convinced that the Conference on Disarmament, as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, has the primary role in substantive negotiations on priority questions of disarmament, Recognizing the need to conduct multilateral negotiations with the aim of reaching concrete agreements, Recalling, in this respect, that the Conference has a number of urgent and important issues for negotiation, 1. Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community; 2. Urges the Conference to fulfil that role in the light of the evolving international situation, with a view to making early substantive progress on priority items on its agenda; 3. Welcomes the strong collective interest of the Conference in commencing substantive work as soon as possible during its 2001 session; 4. Also welcomes the decision of the Conference to request its President to conduct jointly with the incoming President intensive consultations during the intersessional period in order to try to achieve this goal, as expressed in paragraph 35 of the report of the Conference;4 3 4 2 See A/55/267. Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth-fifth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/55/27).