A/RES/59/4 19. Also welcomes the growing cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Environment Programme in the field of environment, and encourages their active collaboration with the Economic Cooperation Organization; 20. Notes with satisfaction the ongoing cooperation between the Economic Cooperation Organization and the Islamic Development Bank concerning the project of the Economic Cooperation Organization on the interconnection and parallel functioning of power systems in the region, as well as the assistance provided by the Bank to the Economic Cooperation Organization in convening meetings on power trading as well as on legal and fiscal aspects of the promotion of foreign direct investment in the mineral sector, held in 2002 and 2003, respectively; 21. Takes note of the decision to hold ministerial meetings in the areas of transport and communications, energy/petroleum, environment, agriculture and information technology in 2004 and 2005; 22. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 23. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization”. 40th plenary meeting 22 October 2004 4