Regional connectivity: BOI hosts economic cooperation meeting

ISLAMABAD: The first meeting of Economic Cooperation Organization- Investment Promotion Agencies (ECO-IPA) was held to promote inter and intra-regional business activity in general and among member states in particular. The meeting was chaired by Board of Investment Secretary Azher Ali Choudhary while representatives of IPA’s from Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan participated in it. The BoI Secretary informed the participants that in the 3rd ECO Ministerial Meeting on Finance and Economy held on December 21 - 23, 2008 in Tehran, it was decided to set-up a ECO- Heads of Investment Promotion Agencies (ECO - IPA) Forum on the pattern of ECO- Heads of Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs). He said that this activity of ECO countries will play an active role for the collective advantage of the region.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2016.

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