A/RES/51/102 Page 3 5. Requests the Secretary-General, as foreseen in programme 35 (Promotion and protection of human rights) of the medium-term plan for the period 1992-1997,5 to continue to strengthen exchanges between the United Nations and regional intergovernmental organizations dealing with human rights; 6. Welcomes the growing exchanges between the High Commissioner/Centre for Human Rights and several regional intergovernmental organizations, as well as between the bodies created by the United Nations in accordance with the treaties dealing with human rights and the Council of Europe; 7. Invites States in areas where regional arrangements in the field of human rights do not yet exist to consider concluding agreements with a view to the establishment within their respective regions of suitable regional machinery for the promotion and protection of human rights; 8. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to continue to pay special attention to the most appropriate ways of assisting, at their request, countries of the different regions under the programme of advisory services and to make, where necessary, relevant recommendations; 9. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the state of regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights and to include therein the results of action taken in pursuance of the present resolution; 10. session. Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-third 82nd plenary meeting 12 December 1996 5 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/45/6/Rev.1), vol. II.