A/RES/55/201 21. Notes the efforts that the Facility is making towards developing programmes for assisting developing countries in capacity-building activities relating to the Cartagena Protocol; 22. Calls upon States parties to the Conventiony to settle urgently any arrears and to pay their contributions in full and in a timely manner so as to ensure continuity in the cash flows required to finance the ongoing work of the Conference of the Parties, the subsidiary bodies and the Convention secretariat; 23. Invites the Executive Secretary of the Convention to report to the General Assembly on the ongoing work regarding the Convention; 24. Requests the conferences of the parties to the multilateral environmental conventions to take into consideration the schedule of meetings of the General Assembly and the Commission on Sustainable Development when setting the dates of meetings of the conferences of the parties so as to ensure the adequate representation of developing countries at those meetings; 25. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the sub-item entitled “Convention on Biological Diversity”. 87th plenary meeting 20 December 2000 5