A/RES/59/4 efforts to promote industrial cooperation in the region through the mobilization of regional and international resources and the industrial potential of the member States, and to that end encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to actively contribute to the activities of the Economic Cooperation Organization in the field of industry; 13. Also takes note with satisfaction of the decisions of the first Economic Cooperation Organization Ministerial Meeting on Finance/Economy, held on 29 and 30 January 2004, and the Islamabad Joint Communiqué for Cooperation on Finance/Economy, especially in the areas of: (a) macroeconomic management and global capital markets; (b) promotion of banking, investment, transit and trade from legal and financial aspects; (c) securities and capital market regulations and stock/commodity exchanges; (d) privatization of public enterprises; and (e) cost of economic adjustment and the need for social safety nets; 14. Appreciates the efforts of the Economic Cooperation Organization to implement the Millennium Development Goals, especially its attempts to reduce poverty and food insecurity in the region, takes note with satisfaction of the implementation of the technical cooperation programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the regional programme for food security in the member States of the Economic Cooperation Organization, and urges the relevant financial institutions to support the ideas to be outlined within the programme; 15. Welcomes the initiative of the Economic Cooperation Organization to establish institutional cooperation among its member States and relevant international organizations on agriculture-related matters of the World Trade Organization, and encourages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other international organizations and institutions to support the activities of the Economic Cooperation Organization in this regard; 16. Notes with satisfaction the adoption of the Tehran Declaration on Environmental Cooperation among member States of the Economic Cooperation Organization and the Plan of Action for Cooperation among the States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization on Environment (2003–2007) at the first Ministerial Meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization on Environment, held in Tehran, from 13 to 15 December 2002, and the revision of the Plan of Action by the member States at the first meeting of the Working Group on Environment, held in Ankara on 7 and 8 April 2004; 17. Also notes with satisfaction the adoption by the United Nations Environment Programme of decision 22/14 of 7 February 2003 on the role of the Programme in strengthening regional activities and cooperation in the Economic Cooperation Organization region, at the twenty-second session of the United Nations Environment Programme Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum; 2 18. Welcomes the signing of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of environment between the Economic Cooperation Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, in Tehran on 18 August 2004; _______________ 2 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/58/25), annex. 3