A/RES/48/108 Page 7 32. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session on measures taken to implement the present resolution. 85th plenary meeting, 20 December 1993 ANNEX Participation of non-governmental organizations in the Fourth World Conference on Women and its preparatory body Non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council that express the wish to attend the Conference and the meetings of the Commission on the Status of Women, acting as its preparatory body, will be accredited for participation. Others wishing to be accredited may apply to the Conference secretariat for that purpose in accordance with the following requirements: (a) The secretariat of the Fourth World Conference on Women will be responsible for the receipt and preliminary evaluation, in accordance with the provisions set out below, of requests from non-governmental organizations for accreditation to the Conference and the Commission on the Status of Women acting as preparatory body; (b) All such applications must be accompanied by information on the competence of the organization and on its relevance to the work of the preparatory body, indicating the particular areas of the preparations for the Conference to which such competence and relevance pertain, and should include the following: (i) The purposes of the organization; (ii) Information on its programmes and activities in areas relevant to the Conference and on the country or countries in which those programmes and activities are carried out; (iii) Confirmation of its activities at the national and/or the international level; (iv) Copies of its annual reports, with financial statements and a list of members of the governing body and their country of nationality; (v) A description of its membership, indicating the total number of members of the governing body and their country of nationality; (c) Non-governmental organizations seeking accreditation will be asked to confirm their interest in the goals and objectives of the Conference; (d) In cases where the Conference secretariat believes, on the basis of the information provided in accordance with the present document, that an /...