3. Reaffirms that the Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction should perform the functions as indicated in the report of the Secretary-General, in particular those of serving as a main forum within the United Nations system for devising strategies and policies for disaster reduction and ensuring complementarity of action by agencies involved in disaster reduction, mitigation and preparedness, decides to review the activities of the Task Force in 2003, and decides also that the inter-agency secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction should develop collaborative links with appropriate regional disaster reduction organizations;
3. 重申减少灾害机构间工作队应履行秘书长的报告所说明的职能，特别是作为联合国系统内制订减灾战略和政策的主要论坛及确保参与减少、减轻和防备灾害的机构的行动相辅相成的职能，决定在2003年审查工作队的活动，并决定国际减少灾害战略机构间秘书处也应与有关区域减灾组织发展协作关系；