A/RES/61/12 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 59/4 of 22 October 2004, 2 and expresses satisfaction at the mutually beneficial interaction between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization; Takes note of the Baku Declaration, adopted at the ninth Economic 2. Cooperation Organization summit, held in Baku on 5 May 2006, which provides guidelines to the Organization in areas such as trade, transportation, energy, agriculture, industry, health and the environment; Welcomes the adoption by the Council of Ministers of the Economic 3. Cooperation Organization at its fifteenth meeting of “ECO Vision 2015” as the basic reference document of the Economic Cooperation Organization, in line with the Millennium Development Goals, inter alia, in which the establishment of a free trade area in the region, facilitation of trade and investment information networking, transportation, the promotion of small- and medium-sized enterprises and utilization of new and renewable technologies are highlighted; Calls for the strengthening of technical assistance of the World Trade 4. Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other trade-related United Nations bodies, such as the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO, to States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization, taking into account the fact that the member States are developing countries and countries with economies in transition, some of which are in the process of becoming members of the World Trade Organization and that their access to world markets and increasing intraregional and interregional trade through the implementation of regional trade agreements will boost their efforts to achieve their development goals; Notes with satisfaction the implementation of the Programme of Action 5. of the Economic Cooperation Organization Decade of Transport and Communications (1998–2007), which is supported by technical assistance from the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, especially for the elimination of non-physical barriers on main transit-transport routes of the region; Welcomes the signing by most States members of the Economic 6. Cooperation Organization of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network, which has been launched under the auspices of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and calls upon the member States concerned to contribute to the operationalization of the project by identifying their priority investment projects; Expresses its appreciation for the efforts of the Economic Cooperation 7. Organization in developing a regional energy trade with the cooperation and active participation of subregional and international organizations such as the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Islamic Development Bank; Appreciates that the Regional Programme for Food Security of the 8. Economic Cooperation Organization has been formulated with the technical and financial assistance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and contributions of the Islamic Development Bank, invites the relevant United _______________ 2 2 See A/61/256, part two, sect. XV.