Recognizing the strong commitment of the international community, demonstrated at the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Second Assembly of the Global Environment Facility, to make the Facility available as a financial mechanism of the Convention, pursuant to article 21 of the Convention, and in this regard encourages the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, as the supreme body of the Convention, to take the appropriate decision to that effect at its next ordinary session in 2003,
认识到国际社会在可持续发展问题世界首脑会议和全球环境基金第二届大会明显作出有力的承诺，决心按照公约第21条使全球环境基金担任公约的财务机制，在这方面，鼓励作为公约最高机关的公约缔约方会议在其2003年下一届常会就此作出适当的决定，