A/61/335 relevant stakeholders to consider implementing the Special Rapporteur’s recommendations. To that end, the Assembly urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide States, at their request, with advisory services and technical assistance to enable them to implement fully the recommendations of the Special Rapporteur. Further, the Assembly encouraged closer collaboration between the Special Rapporteur and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in particular the AntiDiscrimination Unit. It also requested the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur with all the necessary human and financial assistance to carry out his mandate efficiently, effectively and expeditiously and to enable him to submit an interim report to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session. 6. The General Assembly welcomed the determination of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to profile and increase the visibility of the struggle against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and her intention to make this a cross-cutting issue in the activities and programmes of her Office. 7. This report is submitted pursuant to this resolution, whose main provisions are summarized above. II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur 8. Several fundamental aspects of the Special Rapporteur’s mandate underpin his activities: to focus efforts to combat racism on national and international plans for the promotion and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; to encourage the elaboration of effective political, legal and cultural strategies to identify and combat the root causes of old and new forms of racism and xenophobia, including their politicization and legitimization in intellectual discourse; to promote the link between efforts to combat racism and xenophobia and the construction over the long-term of an egalitarian, democratic and interactive multiculturalism based on respect for the cultural diversity of national communities and the promotion of social unity. 9. The Special Rapporteur’s activities are categorized as follows: reports he submitted to the Commission at its sixty-second session, to be examined by the Human Rights Council; coordination with other human rights mechanisms; participation in various meetings and conferences organized by Governments or civil society on racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia; efforts to combat the defamation of religions and to promote interreligious dialogue; racism in sport; and, finally, field missions he has conducted. A. Reports submitted to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixty-second session 10. Since the General Assembly expressed a wish in several of its resolutions to be kept informed of reports submitted to the Commission on Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur provides here details of the reports he submitted to the Commission at its sixty-second session, including his general report on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination (E/CN.4/2006/16), 06-51904 5