A/RES/65/161 fifty-nine States and one regional economic integration organization are parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 3 2F Recognizing that the achievement of the three objectives of the Convention is crucial for sustainable development, poverty eradication and the improvement of human well-being and a major factor underpinning the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, Recalling the commitments of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002, to pursue a balanced, efficient and coherent implementation of the three objectives of the Convention, Recognizing the continuing need for greater progress in the implementation by parties of obligations and commitments under the Convention in order to achieve its objectives, and in this regard emphasizing the need to comprehensively address the challenges to the full implementation of the Convention at the national, regional and global levels, Recalling the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on biodiversity, held on 22 September 2010 as a contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity, Recalling also the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals and its outcome document, 4 3F Expressing deep appreciation to the Government of Japan for hosting the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, and welcoming the decision by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting to endorse the offer of the Government of India to host the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties, to be held from 8 to 19 October 2012, and the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, to be held from 1 to 5 October 2012, 5 4F 1. Takes note of the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the work of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention; 6 5F 2. Recognizes the important outcomes of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity1 and the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,3 held in Nagoya, Japan, from 18 to 29 October 2010 and from 11 to 15 October 2010, which represent a significant contribution to the comprehensive implementation of the three objectives of the Convention; 0H 1H Notes the adoption by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention at 3. its tenth meeting of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 7 and acknowledges the potential role of access and benefit-sharing in contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of 6F _______________ 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2226, No. 30619. See resolution 65/1. 5 See UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27, annex, decision X/46. 6 A/65/294, sect. III. 7 See UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27, annex, decision X/1. 4 2