At its 21st plenary meeting, on 8 June 2022, the Economic and Social Council, recalling its resolution 1989/56 of 24 May 1989, by which the Council adopted the statute of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, and noting that, pursuant to paragraph 3 (e) of article IV of the statute, the Board of Trustees of the Institute should report periodically to the Council through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, decided, without prejudice to the existing reporting mandate through the Commission, to invite the Director of the Institute to make an oral report to the Council every second year on the activities of the Institute under the biennial item entitled “United Nations research and training institutes”, beginning at the 2023 session of the Council.