A/RES/68/214 Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its contribution to sustainable development the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 20 and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 21 (the Rio conventions) and of the Liaison Group of Biodiversity-related Conventions, acknowledges the importance of improving coherence in the implementation of those 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 those instruments; 19. Invites the secretariat of the Convention to report, through the SecretaryGeneral, at its sixty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and on difficulties encountered in the process of their implementation; 20. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”. 71st plenary meeting 20 December 2013 _______________ 20 21 6/6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480. Ibid., vol. 1771, No. 30822.