A/RES/58/243 Noting the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the need to build and enhance scientific and technological capabilities, inter alia, through continuing support to the Panel for the exchange of scientific data and information, especially in developing countries, Noting also that, to date, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 5 has attracted one hundred and nineteen ratifications, including from parties mentioned in annex I to the Convention, who account for 44.2 per cent of emissions, 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 Taking note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, 8 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 Change5 strongly urge States that have not already done so to ratify it in a timely manner; 3. Notes with interest the preparations undertaken for the implementation of the flexible mechanisms established by the Kyoto Protocol; 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, 9 and the Convention on Biological Diversity, 10 and encourages cooperation to promote complementarities among the three secretariats while respecting their independent legal status; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to make provisions for the sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its subsidiary bodies in his proposal for the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005; Invites the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework 6. Convention on Climate Change to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the work of the Conference of the Parties; Invites the conferences of the parties to the multilateral environmental 7. conventions, when setting the dates of their meetings, to take into consideration the _______________ 5 FCCC/CP/1997/7/Add.1, decision 1/CP.3, annex. See resolution 55/2. 7 Ibid., para. 23. 8 A/58/308. 9 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480. 10 Ibid., vol. 1760, No. 30619. 6 2