A/RES/55/90 Recalling also the initiatives taken by a number of human rights treaty bodies to elaborate early warning measures and urgent procedures, within their mandates, with a view to preventing the occurrence or recurrence of serious human rights violations, Reaffirming its responsibility for the effective functioning of human rights treaty bodies, and reaffirming also the importance of: (a) Promoting the effective functioning of the periodic reporting by States parties to those instruments, (b) Securing sufficient financial, human and information resources for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to enable the human rights treaty bodies to carry out their mandates effectively, including in regard to their ability to work in the applicable working languages, (c) Promoting greater efficiency and effectiveness through better coordination of the activities of the United Nations bodies active in the field of human rights, taking into account the need to avoid unnecessary duplication and overlapping of their mandates and tasks, (d) Addressing questions of both reporting obligations and financial implications when elaborating any further instruments on human rights, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 4 1. Welcomes the submission of the reports of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on their eleventh 5 and twelfth 6 meetings, held at Geneva from 31 May to 4 June 1999 and 5 to 8 June 2000, respectively, and takes note of their conclusions and recommendations; 2. Encourages each treaty body to continue to give careful consideration to the relevant conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies, and in this context also encourages enhanced cooperation and coordination between the treaty bodies; 3. Welcomes the initiative of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies of inviting representatives of Member States to participate in a dialogue within the framework of their meetings, and encourages them to continue this practice in the future; 4. Welcomes the comments by Governments, United Nations bodies and specialized agencies, non-governmental organizations and interested persons on the final report of the independent expert on enhancing the long-term effectiveness of the United Nations human rights treaty system 7 and the report of the SecretaryGeneral thereon; 8 5. Emphasizes the need to ensure financing and adequate staff and information resources for the operations of the human rights treaty bodies, and with this in mind: (a) Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to provide adequate resources in respect of each human rights treaty body, while making the most efficient use of existing resources, in order to give the human rights treaty bodies 4 A/55/278. A/54/805, annex. 6 A/55/206, annex. 7 E/CN.4/1997/74, annex. 8 E/CN.4/2000/98 and Add.1. 5 2