A/RES/59/82 4. Welcomes the activities undertaken by the Group of Interested States, and invites the Group to continue to analyse lessons learned from previous disarmament and peace-building projects, as well as to promote new practical disarmament measures to consolidate peace, especially as undertaken or designed by affected States themselves, regional and subregional organizations as well as United Nations agencies; Encourages Member States, including the Group of Interested States, to 5. lend their support to the Secretary-General, relevant international, regional and subregional organizations, in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations in responding to requests by Member States to collect and destroy small arms and light weapons in post-conflict situations; Welcomes the synergies within the multi-stakeholder process, including 6. Governments, the United Nations system, regional and subregional organizations and institutions as well as non-governmental organizations in support of practical disarmament measures and the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, 7 in particular, inter alia through the Coordinating Action on Small Arms; 7. Thanks the Secretary-General for his report on the implementation of resolution 57/81,3 taking into consideration the activities of the Group of Interested States in this regard; 8. Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on disarmament and nonproliferation education, 8 as well as his report on the United Nations Disarmament Information Programme; 9 9. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of practical disarmament measures, taking into consideration the activities of the Group of Interested States in this regard; 10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the item entitled “Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures”. 66th plenary meeting 3 December 2004 _______________ 7 See Report of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York, 9–20 July 2001 (A/CONF.192/15), chap. IV, para. 24. 8 A/59/178 and Add.1. 9 A/59/171. 3