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Economic Cooperation Organization
Economic Cooperation Organization
Motto: "Sustainable socio-economic development for people of the region"
Member states of the ECO
Headquarters Official language Type Membership Leaders - Secretary General Establishment Area - Total
Tehran, Iran English Cooperation 10 member states
Shamil Aleskerov 1985
7,937,197 km 3.06457e+06 sq mi Population
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2010 estimate Density
416,046,863 651/km2 1,686.1/sq mi 2010 (IMF) estimate
GDP (PPP) - - Total Per capita Website http:/ / www. ecosecretariat. org
$2,697,037 million $6,483
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The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is an intergovernmental organization involving seven Asian and three Eurasian nations, part of the South-central Asian Union. It provides a platform to discuss ways to improve development and promote trade, and investment opportunities. The ECO is an ad hoc organization under the United Nations Charter (Chap. VIII) [2]. The common objective is to establish a single market for goods and services, much like the European Union.[3] ECO's secretariat and cultural department are located in Tehran, its economic bureau is in Turkey and its scientific bureau is situated in Pakistan. The organization's population is 416,046,863 and the area is 8,620,697 km².[4] The organization was founded by Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. ECI's Charter was signed on 15 March 1995 in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Economic Cooperation Organization
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History and role
Economic Cooperation Organization 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. It was the successor organisation of what was the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD), founded in 1964, which ended activities in 1979. In the fall of 1992, the ECO expanded to include seven new members,