A/RES/57/262 the Commission on Sustainable Development 11 and the rules of procedure of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 12 as well as the established practices of the Commission, to participate fully in the activities identified for the further implementation of and effective follow-up to the Programme of Action and in the preparations for the comprehensive review; 12. Invites all international meetings of relevance to small island developing States, including the regional and interregional meetings of small island developing States, to provide relevant input into the comprehensive review and its preparatory process; 13. Requests the Secretary-General, pursuant to paragraph 8 of resolution 56/198, to give further consideration to strengthening the Small Island Developing States Unit of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, inter alia, through the regularization of the current post of Interregional Adviser for Small Island Developing States at the earliest opportunity, thereby enabling the Unit to assist in the preparations for the comprehensive review of the Programme of Action; 14. Calls for the participation of associate members of regional commissions in the comprehensive review of the Programme of Action, and in the preparatory process therefor, as observers, in the same capacity specified for their participation in the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held in 1994, and in the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly, held in 1999 to review the implementation of the Programme of Action; 15. Decides to establish a voluntary fund for the purpose of assisting small island developing States, including the least developed among them, to participate fully and effectively in the international meeting referred to in paragraph 5 above, as well as in the various preparatory processes referred to in paragraph 7 above, and invites Governments, intergovernmental organizations and the major groups accredited to the Commission on Sustainable Development to contribute to the fund; 16. Urges all relevant organizations to finalize, by 2004, the work on the vulnerability index, taking into account the particular circumstances and needs of small island developing States; 17. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session, under the item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States”; 18. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 78th plenary meeting 20 December 2002 _______________ 11 12 4 See E/5975/Rev.1. A/CONF.199/2 and Corr.1.