On Monday, in the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku opened the 12th summit of the member countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization.
The summit involves the presidents of Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and Turkey's Prime Minister.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Jordan (have an observer status) are represented by high-level delegation.
The summit was opened by the chairman of the organization, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He handed over the chairmanship of the organization to the President of Azerbaijan. Next, the heads of delegations spoke.
The summit is expected to adopt a final statement.
* ECO was established in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the organization was joined by Azerbaijan and five Central Asian republics. Afghanistan also joined it then.
ECO has eight sector technical committees on agriculture, industrial cooperation, transport and communications, infrastructure and public affairs, science, education and culture, energy, and non-proliferation of drugs. -03B-
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