A/RES/57/257 Expressing its deep appreciation to the Government of India for hosting the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties at New Delhi from 23 October to 1 November 2002, Taking note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 5 Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 6 in which heads of State and Government resolved to make every effort to ensure the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, preferably by the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 2002, and to embark on the required reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases, 7 1. Calls upon States to work cooperatively towards achieving the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; 1 2. Notes that States that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2 strongly urge the States that have not yet done so to ratify it in a timely manner; 3. Takes note of the Delhi Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at its eighth session; 4. Notes the ongoing work of the liaison group of the secretariats and officers of the relevant subsidiary bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, 8 and the Convention on Biological Diversity, 9 and encourages cooperation to promote complementarities among the three secretariats while respecting their independent legal status; 5. Invites the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to report in a timely manner to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the work of the Conference of the Parties; 6. Invites the conferences of the parties to the multilateral environmental conventions, when setting the dates of their meetings, to take into consideration the schedule of meetings of the General Assembly and the Commission on Sustainable Development so as to ensure the adequate representation of developing countries at those meetings; 7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the sub-item entitled “Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind”. 78th plenary meeting 20 December 2002 _______________ 5 See A/57/359. See resolution 55/2. 7 Ibid., para. 23. 8 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480. 9 Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619. 6 2