A/RES/59/9 particular, of the follow-up action taken on the multilateral and bilateral proposals adopted at the previous meetings between the two organizations; 7. Also calls upon the specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system to increase their cooperation with the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations in the priority sectors of energy, rural development, desertification and green belts, training and vocational education, technology, environment, information and documentation, trade and finance, water resources, development of the agricultural sector, empowerment of women, transport, communications and information, promotion of the role of the private sector and capacity-building; Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in cooperation 8. with the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, to encourage periodic consultation between representatives of the Secretariat of the United Nations and of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in order to review and strengthen coordination mechanisms with a view to accelerating implementation of, and follow-up action on, the multilateral projects, proposals and recommendations adopted at the meetings between the two organizations; Recommends that the United Nations and all organizations of the United 9. Nations system make the greatest possible use of Arab institutions and technical expertise in projects undertaken in the Arab region; 10. Reaffirms that, in order to enhance cooperation and for the purpose of the review and appraisal of progress, a general meeting between representatives of the United Nations system and the League of Arab States should be held once every two years and that joint inter-agency sectoral meetings should also be convened on a biennial basis to address priority areas of major importance to the development of Arab States, on the basis of agreement between the United Nations system and the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations; 11. Also reaffirms the importance of holding the next general meeting on cooperation between representatives of the secretariats of the organizations of the United Nations system and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations during 2005; 12. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States”. 40th plenary meeting 22 October 2004 3