A/HRC/10/40 page 6 V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 15. Pursuant to the calls by the General Assembly and the Board of Trustees of the Fund, donors are invited to pay their contributions to the Fund before the thirty-first session of the Board (19-23 October 2009), to enable the latter to take them into account in October 2009. 16. The General Assembly and the Board have also urged regular donors to increase their contributions if possible in order to provide the Board with the resources to meet the growing needs of torture victims and the members of their families. 17. The Board strongly encourages Governments that have not yet contributed to the Fund to do so, preferably before September 2009. -----