12. Also requests the Secretary-General, in the context of the preparation of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005, to allocate sufficient human and financial resources to the Programme on Ageing of the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat so as to make it possible for the Programme efficiently and effectively to fulfil its task as the United Nations focal point on ageing and to facilitate and promote the Madrid Plan of Action by, inter alia, designing guidelines for policy development and implementation and advocating means to mainstream ageing issues into development agendas;
12. 又请秘书长在编写2004-2005两年期方案预算时向秘书处经济和社会事务部社会政策和发展司老龄问题方案分配足够的人力和财政资源，使方案能够切实有效完成其作为联合国老龄问题协调中心的任务，并除其他外，设计拟定和执行政策的准则，宣传将老龄问题纳入发展议程主流的途径，从而协助并促进该《马德里行动计划》；