A/RES/61/204 Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 13 and the Convention on Biological Diversity, and further encourages continuing cooperation in order to promote complementarities among the secretariats, while respecting their independent legal status; 18. Stresses the importance of reducing duplicative reporting requirements of the biodiversity-related conventions, while respecting their independent legal status and their independent mandates; 19. Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to continue reporting to the General Assembly on the ongoing work regarding the Convention, including its Cartagena Protocol; 20. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development”, the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”. 83rd plenary meeting 20 December 2006 _______________ 13 4 Ibid., vol. 1954, No. 33480.