As regards the issues of bilateral cooperation, the Ministers agreed as follows: 1. To promote an active political dialogue on pressing regional and international issues and to continue regular contacts between Foreign Ministers, as well as consultations between Ministries of Foreign Affairs, to that end; 2. With a view to maximizing the existing economic potential, to help create a favorable climate for stepping up mutual trade and investment by promoting contacts between representatives of business circles and enhancing cooperation in such fields as industry, transport, communications, agriculture, tourism, and health care; 3. To encourage the participation of GCC ministers in the International Industrial Exhibition “INNOPROM - 2017” in Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation, in 2017; 4. To continue energy cooperation, to organize joint meetings of experts and technical specialists aimed to develop relevant parameters, and to cooperate in the field of peaceful use of nuclear energy, nuclear security and renewable energy sources; 5. To maintain contacts with the GCC member countries within the existing joint bilateral working groups on cooperation in aluminum production and to discuss holding a GCC-Russia Ad Hoc Meeting in the UAE in 2016; 6. To foster further development of inter-parliamentary and interregional ties; 7. To interact in the field of higher education and scientific research through contacts between universities, higher schools and scientific research centers; 8. To improve cooperation in addressing challenges of development, environmental protection and natural resources conservation, emergency situations, natural disasters, environmental crises, and water resource policy. The Ministers gave instructions to complete the GCC - Russia Joint Action Plan for the Strategic Dialogue and submit it for approval to their next meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in September 2016. The Ministers decided to hold the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the Strategic Dialogue in 2017 in the Kingdom of Bahrain. --SPA 21:36 LOCAL TIME 18:36 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w