A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action A/RES/73/262 will be concluded by Member States and observer States, with further consultations with people of African descent; 13. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to accelerate efforts and strengthen awareness-raising public information campaigns in support of the International Decade for People of African Descent through the use of social networks and digital media, including the wide distribution of user-friendly, concise and accessible versions of material in this regard; 14. Requests the Human Rights Council, in consultation with relevant mechanisms such as the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, to initiate, as a matter of necessity, priority and urgency, the preparatory process for the midterm review for the International Decade for People of African Descent and to prepare a programme in this regard and report to the General Assembly at its seventy fourth session; III Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 15. Notes with concern the removal of the historic and landmark World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance of 2001 from among the 20 major achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in 1993; 7 16. Requests the Secretary-General and the Office of the High Commissioner to provide the resources necessary for the effective fulfilment of the mandates of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, the group of independent eminent experts on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action and the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards, and in this regard to ensure the participation of experts in each session of those follow-up mechanisms in order to provide advice on the specific issues under discussion and assist the mechanisms in their deliberations and the adoption of action-oriented recommendations in relation to the implementation of the Declaration and Programme of Action; IV Group of independent eminent experts on the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 17. Welcomes the note by the Secretary-General on the appointment to fill the existing vacancies in the group of independent eminent experts, 8 and in this regard notes that the group held its fifth session in Geneva from 8 to 11 October 2018; V Trust fund for the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination 18. Recalls the establishment by the Secretary-General, in 1973, of the trust fund for the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination as a funding mechanism that has been utilized for the implementation of the activities of the three Decades for Action to Combat Racism and Racial __________________ 7 8 18-22644 A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. A/73/98. 5/7