A/RES/65/161 acknowledges the importance of improving coherence in the implementation of the Rio Conventions, recognizes the importance of enhancing synergies among the biodiversity-related conventions, without prejudice to their specific objectives, and encourages the conferences of the parties to the biodiversity-related multilateral environmental agreements to consider strengthening efforts in this regard, taking into account relevant experiences and bearing in mind the respective independent legal status and mandates of these instruments; 12. Reaffirms the intrinsic value of biological diversity as well as the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic values of biological diversity and its components, taking into account their importance for sustainable development; 13. Notes the consideration of aspects related to the economic valuation of ecosystems and biodiversity in the context of the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity, including The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity reports, as referred to in relevant decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its tenth meeting; 14. Also notes the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its tenth meeting of a decision on the administration of the Convention and budget for the programme of work for the biennium 2011–2012, 14 which included the revised administrative arrangements between the secretariat of the Convention and the United Nations Environment Programme and through which the Conference of the Parties looked forward to the rapid completion of the servicelevel agreement provided for in those arrangements, requested the Executive Secretary of the Convention to report to the Conference of the Parties through its Bureau on the implementation of those arrangements and invited the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to report on those arrangements to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its twenty-sixth session; 13F 15. Invites countries that have not yet done so to ratify or accede to the Convention; 16. Invites parties to the Convention that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Cartagena Protocol to consider doing so; 17. Invites parties to the Convention to sign, ratify or accede to the Nagoya Protocol at the earliest opportunity; 18. Invites parties to the Cartagena Protocol to sign, ratify or accede to the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol at the earliest opportunity; 19. Decides, following the invitation by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at its tenth meeting, 15 to declare 2011–2020 the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, with a view to contributing to the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, and in this regard requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States, to lead the coordination of the activities of the Decade on behalf of the United Nations system, with the support of the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the secretariats of other biodiversityrelated conventions and relevant United Nations funds, programmes and agencies, and invites Member States in a position to do so to contribute, on a voluntary basis, to the funding of the activities of the Decade; 14F _______________ 14 15 4 See UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27, annex, decision X/45. Ibid., decision X/8.