ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to visit Baku, Azerbaijan, to participate in the 12th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) members on October 15. President Zardari will hold meetings with Azerbaijan’s leadership and leaders of ECO member countries on the sidelines of the summit. The 20th Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the ECO will also be held in Baku on October 15. The meeting will adopt substantial decisions on new initiatives and activities reflected in the program planned for 2012 to 2013. The ECO Summit will mark nearly two decades of sustainable functioning of the regional organisation, the second-largest in the world. A Baku Declaration outlining the vision and guidance forthe organization will be issued at the end of the summit. The ECO is an intergovernmental organization involving seven Asian and three Euro-Asian nations.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2012.
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