وهذه الصلة قامت منذ اعتماد الاتفاقية في عام 1994 ولقد دأبت الجمعية العامة على الإلحاح في طلب إدراج دورات مؤتمر الأطراف وهيئاته الفرعية ضمن الخطة العامة للمؤتمرات وهذا الإدراج ينبغي تفسيره على أنه يغطي تكاليف خدمة المؤتمرات من الميزانية العادية للأمم المتحدة باعتبار ذلك إجراءاً معيارياً معمولاً به ولم يتغير بنص أيٍ من قرارات الجمعية العامة.
The Convention was an important tool for poverty eradication and sustainable development, and could be implemented only through a strong political and institutional link to the United Nations, with its administrative, budgetary and resource implications. That link had existed since the adoption of the Convention in 1994. There had always been a strong demand from the General Assembly to include the sessions of the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies in the overall conference calendar. That inclusion should be interpreted to cover conference-servicing costs from the regular budget of the United Nations, since that had been standard procedure and had not been changed expressly by any General Assembly resolution.