A/RES/57/37 Island Developing States 2 and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly, 3 Recognizing that the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development 4 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) 5 recently reaffirmed the special needs of small island developing States and called for an international meeting in 2004 6 to review the Barbados Programme of Action,2 Taking note of the communiqué of the thirty-third meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, held in Suva from 15 to 17 August 2002, 7 Affirming the need to strengthen the cooperation that already exists between entities of the United Nations system and the Pacific Islands Forum in the areas of economic and social development, as well as in political and humanitarian affairs, Mindful of the need for the coordinated utilization of available resources to promote the common objectives of the two organizations, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum, 1 as well as his efforts to strengthen that cooperation; 2. Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to take the necessary measures, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum, to promote and expand cooperation and coordination between the secretariats of the two organizations in order to increase the capacity of the organizations to attain their common objectives; 3. Recommends that further consultations be undertaken by the secretariats of the Pacific Islands Forum and the United Nations to develop contacts and promote cooperative activities in a more structured, regular and transparent manner, including an examination of the option of formalizing cooperation and coordination between the two organizations in the future; 4. Calls upon the relevant United Nations bodies, in consultation with the Pacific Islands Forum, to implement the framework for cooperation in peacebuilding adopted at the fourth high-level meeting between the United Nations and regional organizations in 2001 8 by developing long-term peace-building programmes to address the security threats in the Pacific Islands Forum region; 5. Urges specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to cooperate with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in order to initiate, maintain and increase consultations and programmes _______________ 2 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April–6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 3 See resolution S-22/2. 4 Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 5 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August– 4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex. 6 Ibid., para. 61. 7 A/57/331, annex. 8 See S/2001/138. 2