A/RES/53/132 Page 6 II WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE 27. Reaffirms the decisions adopted in its resolution 52/111 of 12 December 1997 related to the convening, the definition of objectives and the guidelines for the preparatory process of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance; 28. Takes note of Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/26 of 17 April 1998,10 in which the Commission decided to create an open-ended working group to meet during its fifty-fifth session in order to review and formulate proposals for consideration by the Commission and possible forwarding to the Preparatory Committee for the World Conference at its first session; 29. Requests the Secretary-General: (a) To present a comprehensive report to the General Assembly at both its fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth sessions on the progress achieved in the preparatory process of the World Conference; (b) To submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session a report encompassing the final outcome of the World Conference; (c) To designate the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as Secretary-General of the World Conference, who, in that capacity, will assume the main responsibility for the preparations for the Conference; (d) To consider providing the necessary financial and technical assistance for the convening of regional preparatory meetings; 30. Requests the High Commissioner: (a) To carry out consultations with States aimed at determining the date and venue for the World Conference and to report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-fifth session on the results thereof; (b) To continue to devise and implement, with the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, a world information campaign aimed at sensitizing public opinion to the importance and the objectives of the World Conference, to publish in all the official languages of the United Nations an information pamphlet to be made available to non-governmental organizations, the media and the general public and to inform the Preparatory Committee of developments in this regard; 31. Requests the Commission on Human Rights to present, through the Economic and Social Council, before the end of the fifty-third session of the General Assembly, a concrete proposal on the date and venue of the World Conference; 10 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II, sect. A. /...