A/RES/52/5 Page 3 (c) To associate whenever possible with organizations and institutions of the League of Arab States in the execution and implementation of development projects in the Arab region; (d) To inform the Secretary-General, not later than 10 June 1998, of the progress of their cooperation with the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations, in particular the follow-up action taken on the multilateral and bilateral proposals adopted at the previous meetings between the two organizations; 8. Also calls upon the specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to intensify cooperation with the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations in the following priority sectors, namely energy, rural development, desertification and green belts, training and vocational training, technology, environment and information and documentation; 9. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in cooperation with the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, to encourage periodic consultation between representatives of the Secretariat of the United Nations and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States to review and strengthen coordination mechanisms with a view to accelerating implementation of, and follow-up action on, multilateral projects, proposals and recommendations adopted at the meetings between the two organizations; 10. Recommends that a sectoral meeting on trade and development between the United Nations and the League of Arab States be held at the headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo during 1998; 11. Decides that, in order to enhance cooperation and for the purpose of review and appraisal of progress, a general meeting between the United Nations system and the League of Arab States should take place once every two years, and inter-agency sectoral meetings should be organized regularly on areas of priority and wide importance in the development of the Arab States, on the basis of agreement between the counterpart programmes of the United Nations system and the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations; 12. Recommends that the next general meeting on cooperation between the representatives of the secretariats of organizations of the United Nations system and of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations be held during 1999; 13. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 14. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States". 35th plenary meeting 22 October 1997