A/RES/61/92 and making greater and better use of the potential of the Centre to meet the current challenges facing the international community with a view to fulfilling the aims of the Charter of the United Nations in the areas of peace, disarmament and development; Recognizes that the Regional Centre has an important role in the 6. promotion and development of regional initiatives agreed upon by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, and conventional arms, including small arms and light weapons, as well as in the relationship between disarmament and development; Encourages the Regional Centre to further develop activities in the 7. important area of disarmament and development; 8. Highlights the conclusion contained in the report of the SecretaryGeneral that, through its activities, the Regional Centre has demonstrated its role as a viable regional actor in assisting States in the region to advance the cause of peace, disarmament and development in Latin America and the Caribbean; 4 9. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Regional Centre with all necessary support, within existing resources, so that it may carry out its programme of activities in accordance with its mandate; 10. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution; 11. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session the item entitled “United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean”. 67th plenary meeting 6 December 2006 _______________ 4 See A/61/157, para. 49. 3