A/80/186 71. The Special Rapporteur calls upon the General Assembly to request the International Law Commission, in the context of the progressive development of international law and in accordance with article 16 of the Statute of the Commission, to include in its programme of work the issue of the protection of minorities and persons belonging to minorities, with the view to producing a draft multilateral treaty. 72. The Special Rapporteur calls upon Member States to guarantee appropriate funding, despite the dire fiscal situation, for the Forum on Minority Issues, with a view to ensuring the equitable and broadest possible participation of stakeholders, including by means of a permanent fund. 69 73. The Special Rapporteur urges Member States to strengthen funding the Minorities Fellowship Programme and urges OHCHR to avoid making cuts to this unique, successful and essential programme that is specifically designed for persons belonging to minorities. 74. The Special Rapporteur encourages United Nations entities, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and related organizations to explicitly mention in their programmatic documents the work and activities carried out by the United Nations to address minority issues and protect minority rights. 75. The Special Rapporteur recommends that specialized agencies, other entities, the United Nations Secretariat, funds and programmes designate, at a relevant level, a focal point on minority issues whose focus is designing and reporting on minority-related strategies or projects. These focal points should actively participate in the network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities. 76. The Special Rapporteur strongly recommends that resources be allocated to the network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities, with a view to enabling the network to hold an in-person meeting at least once a year in Geneva on the day before the Forum on Minority Issues and ensure the active participation of network members in the Forum. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the network organize a specific side event in order to present to minority representatives information on the salient aspects of the work of the United Nations for the benefit of persons belonging to minorities. 77. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities, in partnership with his mandate, update the Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, with a view to enabling the Secretary-General to publish a revised or a new version of the Guidance Note. 78. The Special Rapporteur calls upon resident coordinators and United Nations country teams to thoroughly implement, in their common country analyses and in United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks, the Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and the recommendations of the network on racial discrimination and protection of minorities, with a view to improving their focus on racial, ethnic and other minorities. In that connection, resident coordinators and country teams are called upon to recognize in their work the intersectional nature of discrimination that many minorities face, while addressing the root causes of their marginalization in the United Nations programmatic activities. __________________ 69 20/21 Currently, the Forum can only be organized thanks to voluntary contributions from Austria and the voluntary and unpaid work of interns. 25-11708