A/RES/51/87 Page 2 Conscious of the importance of the coordination of the human rights promotion and protection activities of the United Nations bodies active in the field of human rights, Noting with appreciation the initiatives taken by a number of treaty bodies to elaborate early-warning measures and urgent procedures, within their mandates, with a view to preventing the occurrence, or reoccurrence, of serious human rights violations, Expressing concern that the underresourcing of the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat is one impediment to the treaty bodies in their ability to carry out their mandates effectively, Reaffirming its responsibility to ensure the effective functioning of treaty bodies, and reaffirming also the importance of: (a) Ensuring the effective functioning of the periodic reporting by States parties to these instruments; (b) Securing sufficient financial, human and information resources to overcome existing difficulties with their effective functioning; (c) Promoting greater efficiency and effectiveness through better coordination of the activities of the United Nations bodies active in the field of human rights, taking into account the need to avoid unnecessary duplication and overlapping of their mandates and tasks; (d) Addressing questions of both reporting obligations and financial implications whenever elaborating any further instruments on human rights, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General,3 1. Welcomes the report of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on their seventh meeting, held at Geneva from 16 to 20 September 1996,4 and takes note of their conclusions and recommendations; 2. Encourages greater efforts to identify measures for more effective implementation of the United Nations human rights instruments; 3. Emphasizes the need to ensure financing and adequate staff and information resources for the operations of the treaty bodies, and with this in mind: (a) Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General provide adequate resources in respect of each treaty body; (b) Calls upon the Secretary-General to make the most efficient use of existing resources and to seek the resources necessary to give the treaty bodies adequate administrative support, access to technical expertise and access to appropriate databases and on-line information services; 3 A/51/425. 4 A/51/482, annex. /...