A/RES/57/202 Recalling also the initiatives taken by a number of human rights treaty bodies to elaborate early warning measures and urgent procedures, within their mandates, with a view to preventing the occurrence or recurrence of serious human rights violations, Reaffirming its responsibility for the effective functioning of the human rights treaty bodies, and reaffirming also the importance of: (a) Promoting the effective functioning of the periodic reporting by States parties to those instruments, (b) Securing sufficient financial, human and information resources for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to enable the human rights treaty bodies to carry out their mandates effectively, including in regard to their ability to work in the applicable working languages, (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 reporting obligations and financial implications when elaborating any further instruments on human rights, 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General 3 and the reports of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on their thirteenth and fourteenth meetings, 4 held at Geneva from 18 to 22 June 2001 and from 24 to 26 June 2002 respectively, and also takes note of the conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports; 2. Encourages each human rights treaty body to continue to give careful consideration to the relevant conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies on their meetings, and, in this context, encourages enhanced cooperation and coordination among the treaty bodies; 3. Welcomes the holding of the first inter-committee meeting of the human rights treaty bodies, from 26 to 28 June 2002, to discuss issues of common concern, including issues relating to the methods of work of the treaty bodies, and encourages those bodies to continue this practice in future on an annual basis; 4. Encourages the persons chairing the human rights treaty bodies to continue to invite representatives of States parties to participate in a dialogue within the framework of their meetings, and welcomes broad participation by States parties in the dialogue; 5. Emphasizes the information resources for particularly in view of the reporting requirements and mind: need to ensure financing and adequate staff and the operations of the human rights treaty bodies, additional demands placed on the system by the new the increasing number of ratifications and, with this in (a) Reiterates its request that the Secretary-General provide adequate resources in respect of each human rights treaty body, while making the most _______________ 3 4 2 A/57/476. See A/57/56 and A/57/399 and Corr.1.