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Implementation, and in that regard to report on such inter-agency cooperation and
coordination activities to the Commission on Sustainable Development and the
Economic and Social Council in 2004;
Welcomes the decision of the Commission at its eleventh session to invite
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the regional commissions, in collaboration with the secretariat of the Commission,
to consider organizing regional implementation meetings in order to contribute to
the work of the Commission,7 and in this regard urges the regional commissions to
take into account the relevant thematic clusters contained in the Commission’s
programme of work and to provide inputs as specified by the Commission at its
eleventh session;
Also welcomes the decision of the Commission at its eleventh session to
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invite other regional and subregional bodies and institutions within and outside the
United Nations system to contribute to the preparations for the Commission’s
review and policy sessions and the intergovernmental preparatory meeting;7
8.
Requests the Secretary-General, in reporting to the Commission at its
twelfth session on the state of implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the
Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of
Implementation, on the basis of inputs from all levels, as specified by the
Commission at its eleventh session, to submit:
(a) One report on each of the issues of water, sanitation and human
settlement, to be addressed in an integrated manner during the session, which should
contain a detailed review of the progress of implementation relating to those issues,
taking into account, as appropriate, their interlinkages, while addressing the crosscutting issues identified by the Commission at its eleventh session;
(b) A report on overall progress in the implementation of Agenda 21, the
Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan
of Implementation, reflecting:
(i)
Cross-cutting issues identified by the Commission at its eleventh session;
(ii) Progress made in the three dimensions of sustainable development and
their integration;
(iii) Constraints, challenges, opportunities, best practices, informationsharing and lessons learned;
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Invites the Bureau of the Commission at its twelfth session to continue to
recommend to the Commission the specific organizational modalities through openended and transparent consultations to be conducted in a timely manner, following
the established United Nations rules of procedure, bearing in mind that the activities
during Commission meetings should provide for balanced involvement of
participants from all regions, as well as for gender balance;
10. Decides to allocate the resources previously devoted to the former ad hoc
intersessional working groups of the Commission to support the participation of
representatives of member States of the Commission in one of their respective
regional meetings in each implementation cycle;
11. Invites donor countries to consider supporting the participation of experts
from developing countries in the areas of water, sanitation and human settlement in
the next review and policy sessions of the Commission;
12. Decides that resources released by the termination of the work of the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for Development, whose work has
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