Cooperation in sectoral areas: 1 - emphasizing the importance of implementation of the joint work attached plans in sectoral areas as well as the importance of activating the work assigned to it by the joint sectoral committees to translate the outcome of the sectoral ministerial meetings regarding joint projects and cooperation programs. 2 - Welcoming the results of the sectoral meetings in the areas of education, health, women's leaders, which was held in Peru in 2013 and 2014, as well as meetings in the domains of energy, intellectual property, and diplomatic institutions in 2013, in the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Colombia, respectively, and the Ministerial Meeting on Culture, which was held in Saudi Arabia, in 2014 in the framework of Lima, where those meetings have contributed to the development of important initiatives for the current cooperation. 3 - Calling for establishing specific goals for regional bilateral cooperation in high-priority areas such as health, education, poverty reduction, environment, climate change, energy and water resource management, food security and unemployment, in order to strengthen cooperation to promote sustainable development and to establish a mechanism and projects that will contribute effectively to the achievement of those goals. 4 - Reiterating that the energy must become an axis of bilateral and regional relations in the coming years, especially the production of energy and improving the efficiency of consumption issues, and the development of the use of renewable and clean energies, as well as the development of other strategies for dealing with climate change, taking into account the importance of energy in the sustainable development for the members. 5 - Calling for strengthening coordination and scientific cooperation, specifically in the areas of information society, adapting, and mitigating the effects of climate change, combating desertification, water management and agriculture resources. 6 - Welcoming the Republic of Sudan host of the first meeting of the Sub-Committee for agricultural cooperation in the Arab countries and South American countries in February 2016, and urge all countries to participate actively to ensure the success of the meeting. 7 - Reiterating that investment is one of the economic and social development poles and represents an important mechanism to actively contribute to the reduction of poverty and inequality and to support public and private efforts to promote investments, in different areas, at the national and regional levels to facilitate job creation, increased scientific knowledge, education and promotion of sustainable development. --More 00:03 LOCAL TIME 21:03 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w