Ministerial meeting will be preceded by a gathering of senior officials from ECO member states
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The 30th Meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Islamabad on November 15-16, with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar set to chair the meeting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Saturday.
According to the ministry, foreign ministers and heads of delegations from ECO member states would attend the meeting, along with representatives of the ECO Secretariat and its subsidiary bodies.
The ministerial meeting would be preceded by a gathering of senior officials from ECO member states, who would review the organisation’s activities and programmes, assess the work of its subsidiary bodies, and finalise the agenda and draft outcome documents for consideration by the ministers.
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The ministry said Pakistan, as chair of the ECO for 2026-2027, would seek to advance the organisation’s objectives under the theme “Reviving Regionalism for a Resilient ECO”.
Pakistan’s chairmanship would focus on “strengthening regional connectivity and deepening regional integration” to reinforce partnerships and promote collective efforts towards greater prosperity, sustainable development and a more integrated and resilient ECO region, it said.
The ministry said the chairmanship would also provide an opportunity to “reinvigorate the ECO’s role as a platform for regional cooperation,” dialogue and economic collaboration.
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It added that Pakistan aimed to position itself as a regional connectivity hub, a facilitator of logistics supply chains and an agenda-setter for regional trade.
These efforts, it said, would contribute towards unlocking the region’s economic potential and ensuring that the benefits of regional cooperation translated into tangible improvements in the lives of people in ECO member states.
