A/RES/60/253 collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and other parliamentary organizations, and non-governmental organizations to contribute actively to the follow-up to the Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies and to make additional efforts to identify possible steps in support of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies, including through those steps set out in the Ulaanbaatar Declaration and Plan of Action: Democracy, Good Governance and Civil Society, 5 and to inform the SecretaryGeneral of the actions taken; 3. Recognizes that the United Nations has an important role to play in providing timely, appropriate and coherent support to the efforts of Governments to achieve democratization and good governance within the context of their development efforts; Encourages the Secretary-General to continue to improve the capacity of 4. the Organization to respond effectively to the requests of Member States by providing coherent and adequate support for their efforts to achieve the goals of good governance and democratization, including through the activities of the Democracy Fund at the United Nations; Stresses that the activities of the Organization must be undertaken in 5. accordance with the Charter of the United Nations; 6. Commends the Secretary-General, and through him the United Nations system, for the activities undertaken at the request of Governments to support efforts to consolidate democracy and good governance, and requests him to continue those activities; Welcomes the work carried out by the follow-up mechanism of the Fifth 7. International Conference and the efforts of the Chair of the Conference to make the Conference and the follow-up thereto more effective and efficient; Also welcomes the comprehensive tripartite character (governments, 8. parliaments, civil society) of the Sixth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, which will allow for greater interaction and cooperation in the common effort of promoting democracy; Encourages the Inter-Parliamentary Union to continue to promote the 9. contribution by parliaments worldwide to democracy, including through the process of the International Conference of New or Restored Democracies and the upcoming Parliamentarians’ Forum in Doha; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to examine options for strengthening the support provided by the United Nations system for the efforts of Member States to consolidate democracy and good governance, including the provision of support to the President of the Fifth International Conference in his efforts to make the Conference and the follow-up thereto more effective and efficient; 11. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution, including the information requested in paragraph 2 above; _______________ 5 A/58/387, annexes I and II. 3