A/RES/59/20 agreed development goals, including those in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 3 in the Pacific Island countries; 3. Also welcomes the decision of the Pacific Islands Forum to develop a “Pacific Plan”, 4 which is aimed at enhancing regional integration and cooperation among its members and cooperation with the international community, including the United Nations system; Further welcomes the steps taken by the Secretary-General for the sixth 4. high-level meeting between the United Nations and heads of regional organizations, to be convened in mid-2005, and recognizes the tasks before the United Nations departments and organizations in leading the process of implementing the recommendations of the last meeting and in formulating practical follow-up plans for discussion during the next meeting; Notes with satisfaction that regular consultations continue at all levels 5. between the United Nations and the secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum and that the United Nations also participated in the 2004 session of the Pacific Islands Forum Regional Security Committee and at the Leaders’ Forum, held in Apia in August 2004; Welcomes the ongoing efforts of the Pacific Islands Forum to promote, 6. primarily through the Regional Security Committee, law enforcement cooperation, the rule of law and regional peace and security, including combating all types of terrorism, in implementing the core United Nations treaties on anti-terrorism, antimoney-laundering, transnational crime and the financing of terrorism; Requests, in this regard, that the United Nations continue to assist the 7. Pacific Islands Forum to enable the timely implementation of relevant United Nations mandates, and invites States to contribute to the Biketawa Trust Fund, which is administered by the Pacific Islands Forum for confidence-building measures and conflict prevention; Welcomes the significant efforts of the Pacific Islands Forum in 8. enhancing peace and security in the region, including through the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands; Also welcomes the readiness of the United Nations, in cooperation with 9. the Pacific Islands Forum, to field an inter-agency mission to Nauru to identify ways of assisting that country to cope with its current situation; 10. Notes with appreciation the role of the United Nations in the Bougainville peace process in Papua New Guinea and the steady progress being made by the parties; 11. Welcomes plans for the joint hosting of a regional seminar with the Pacific Islands Forum on “Conflict prevention and peacebuilding”, to be held in early 2005; 12. Requests that the Department of Political Affairs of the Secretariat and the United Nations Development Programme, in cooperation with the Pacific Islands Forum, promote joint cooperative needs assessment missions in the region to _______________ 3 4 2 See resolution 55/2. See A/59/95, enclosure II.