A/RES/60/202 Biosafety, to be held in Curitiba from 20 to 31 March, and from 13 to 17 March 2006, respectively, 1. Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, transmitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session; 4 2. Notes the recent progress made with respect to the achievement of the three objectives set out in the Convention on Biological Diversity;2 3. Urges all Member States to fulfil their commitments to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and emphasizes that this will require an appropriate focus on the loss of biodiversity in their relevant policies and programmes and the continued provision of new and additional financial and technical resources to developing countries, including through the Global Environmental Facility; Reiterates the commitment of States parties to the Convention on 4. Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety 5 to support the implementation of the Convention and the Protocol, as well as other biodiversityrelated agreements and the Johannesburg commitment for a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010, and to continue to negotiate within the framework of the Convention, bearing in mind the Bonn Guidelines, 6 an international regime to promote and safeguard the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources; and reiterates also the resolve of all States to fulfil commitments and significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010 and to continue ongoing efforts towards elaborating and negotiating an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefitsharing; Reaffirms the commitment, subject to national legislation, to respect, 5. preserve and maintain the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from their utilization; Notes the holding of the tenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on 6. Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the meetings of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing and the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas; Notes also the progress made at the second meeting of the Conference of 7. the Parties to the Convention serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the continuing efforts made towards the implementation of the Protocol, and stresses that this will require the full support of parties and of relevant international organizations, in particular with regard to the provision of assistance to developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition in capacity-building for biosafety; _______________ 4 A/60/171, sect. III. See UNEP/CBD/ExCOP/1/3 and Corr.1, part two, annex. 6 UNEP/CBD/COP/6/20, annex I, decision VI/24A. 5 2