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RUSSIAN FEDERATION:

M. E. Kokeev stated that the CSD should become not only a political forum for strengthening North-South and East-West partnership but also to prepare specific recommendations for countries and international organizations on the basis of analysis of main trends, problems and experience accumulated in the field of sustainable development as well as a dialogue with all participants, including NGOs. It is also important that there be improvement of structures for coordination among all elements of the UN system. The Russian Federation, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is submitting a draft resolution on strengthening ecological monitoring from space as one of the key components of the implementation of the UNCED decisions. The draft resolution is aimed at initiating a dialogue at this session of the General Assembly and its progressive development in the future.