A/RES/53/190 Page 4 14. Calls upon States parties to the Convention to settle urgently any arrears and to pay their contributions in full and in a timely manner so as to ensure continuity in the cash flows required to finance the ongoing work of the Conference of the Parties, the subsidiary bodies6 and the Convention secretariat; 15. Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to report to the General Assembly on the ongoing work regarding the Convention; 16. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”. 91st plenary meeting 15 December 1998 6 See United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Institution Programme Activity Centre), June 1992, articles 23.4 (g) and 25.

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