At its forty-third session, J&J/ the General Assembly, taking note with interest of the reports of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator and on special economic and disaster relief assistance7 encouraged the Office of the Co-ordiaator to expand further its information base and its capacity to disseminate timely and reliable disaster-related information and to continue to update its profiles of disaster-prone countries, as well as to develop its International Disaster Management Information Network; noted with interest the close co-operation between tbe Office of the Co-ordinator and UNDP, as described in the final report of the joint DNDP/WDRO task force, contained in the report of the Secretary-0eneral on special economic and disaster relief assistance (A/43/731, annex)3 and requested the Office of the Co-ordinator to strengthen its relationship with Member States, in particular with national focal points in disaster-prone countries and, in this connection, recognised the need for meetings at the regional and/or international level with the participation of heads of national emergency relief services (resolution 931209). U/ References for the forty-third session (agenda item 86 (a)): (a) Reports of the Secretary-General8 (i) Activities of the Office of the United Rations Disaster Relief Co-ordinatorr A/93/375-E/1966/73 and Corr.1) (ii) Implementation of General Assembly decision 4314331 (b) Reports of the Second Committee (parts I and III): A/93/916 and Add.2: (C) Resolution 431204 and decirion.93/447: (d) Meetings of the Second Committee: A/C.2/43/18.36 and 92) (e) Plenary meeting: A/43/W.S3. I... A/45/100 English Page 269 At its second regular session of 1958, the Economic and social Council took note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief co-ordinatorj emphasised the need for the Office of the Co-ordinator to be placed, and kept, on a sound financial 