8. Also welcomes the decision taken by the Council of the Global Environment Facility, under item 7 of the agenda of its meeting in December 2001, to consider at its next meeting proposed amendments to the Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment FacilityDP/1994/60, annex. to designate land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, as a focal area of the Facility, as a means of enhancing its support for the successful implementation of the Convention, with a view to the Council recommending approval of such amendments by the Assembly of States participating in the Facility at its meeting in October 2002;
8. 还欢迎全球环境基金理事会在其2001年12月会议议程项目7下决定在下一次会议审议对关于建立经调整的全球环境基金的文件DP/1994/60，附件。 的拟议修正案，指定土地退化、主要是荒漠化和毁林为环境基金的一个重点领域，以此加强它对成功执行公约的支持，以便理事会建议基金参加国大会在其2002年10月会议核准这些修正案；