A/RES/56/41 Island Developing States 1 and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly, 2 Taking note of the communiqué of the thirty-second meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, held in Yaren from 16 to 18 August 2001, 3 Affirming the need to strengthen the cooperation that already exists between entities of the United Nations system and the Pacific Islands Forum in the areas of economic and social development, as well as in political and humanitarian affairs, Mindful of the need for the coordinated utilization of available resources to promote the common objectives of the two organizations, 1. Takes note of the decision of the heads of Government of the Pacific Islands Forum on the pursuit of a closer and cooperative relationship between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum; 2. Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to take the necessary measures, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum, to promote and expand cooperation and coordination between the two secretariats in order to increase the capacity of the organizations to attain their common objectives; 3. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum, to promote, as a matter of priority, meetings between their representatives for consultations on policies, projects and procedures that will facilitate, broaden and, if necessary, formalize, cooperation and coordination between the two organizations; 4. Calls upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum, to assist in the development of long-term peace-building programmes to address new security threats in the Pacific Islands Forum region; 5. Urges specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to cooperate with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in order to initiate, maintain and increase consultations and programmes with the Pacific Islands Forum and its associated institutions in the attainment of their objectives; 6. Invites initiatives from Member States to assist in the cooperation efforts between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum”. 80th plenary meeting 7 December 2001 _______________ 1 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April–6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 2 See resolution S-22/2. 3 See A/56/388. 2