A/RES/59/211 26. Recognizes the need for enhanced coordination and cooperation, both at the headquarters and the field levels, between the United Nations security management system and non-governmental organizations on matters relating to the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and United Nations and its associated personnel, with a view to addressing mutual security concerns in the field; 27. Underlines the need to allocate adequate and predictable resources to the safety and security of United Nations personnel, encourages all States to contribute to the Trust Fund for Security of Staff Members of the United Nations System and to meet requirements in the consolidated appeals, without prejudice to the outcome of the ongoing discussions in the General Assembly regarding the funding for safety and security; 28. Recalls the essential role of telecommunication resources in facilitating the safety of humanitarian personnel and United Nations and its associated personnel, calls upon States to consider acceding to or ratifying the Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations of 18 June 1998, and encourages them to facilitate and expedite, consistent with their national laws and regulations, the use of communications equipment in such operations, inter alia, through limiting and, whenever possible, lifting the restrictions placed on the use of communications equipment by United Nations and its associated personnel; 29. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session a comprehensive and updated report on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel and on the implementation of the present resolution. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 6