A/RES/58/28 (d) To encourage relevant international bodies and organizations to promote transparency of military expenditures and to consult with those bodies and organizations with emphasis on examining possibilities for enhancing complementarity among international and regional reporting systems and for exchanging related information between those bodies and the United Nations; (e) To encourage the United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament in Africa, in Asia and the Pacific, and in Latin America and the Caribbean to assist Member States in their regions in enhancing their knowledge of the standardized reporting system; (f) To promote international and regional/subregional symposia and training seminars to explain the purpose of the standardized reporting system and to give relevant technical instructions; (g) To report on experiences gained during such symposia and training seminars; 6. Encourages Member States: (a) To inform the Secretary-General about possible problems with the standardized reporting system and their reasons for not submitting the requested data; (b) To continue to provide the Secretary-General, in time for deliberation by the General Assembly at its sixtieth session, with their views and suggestions on ways and means to strengthen and broaden participation in the standardized reporting system, including necessary changes to its content and structure; Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the 7. item entitled “Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures”. 71st plenary meeting 8 December 2003 3