Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Turkey next week to attend the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) summit.
The meeting will be held on December 20-21 in Istanbul.
In the two-day meeting Ahmadinejad will hold talks with Turkish and other member countries’ officials.
ECO is an intergovernmental regional organization established in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey for the purpose of promoting economic, technical and cultural cooperation among the member states.
In 1992, the organization was expanded to include seven new members and now current members of ECO are Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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