A/RES/64/140 7. Encourages Member States, the United Nations and relevant organizations of its system to ensure that the needs of rural women are mainstreamed into the integrated process of follow-up to the major conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, in particular the Millennium Summit, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, the 2005 review and appraisal of the progress achieved in implementing all the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action2 and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,3 and the 2005 World Summit; 0H 1H 8. Calls upon Member States to take into consideration the concluding observations and recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerning their reports to the Committee when formulating policies and designing programmes focused on the improvement of the situation of rural women, including those to be developed and implemented in cooperation with relevant international organizations; Invites Governments, relevant international organizations and the 9. specialized agencies to continue to observe the International Day of Rural Women annually, on 15 October, as proclaimed in its resolution 62/136; 10. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 65th plenary meeting 18 December 2009 6