ArmInfo. Organization for Economic Cooperation adopted a resolution on Artsakh conflict
"We, the Organization for Economic Cooperation express concern at the presence in the region the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This conflict also hinders the development of economic cooperation at both the regional and wider level", is stated in the adopted resolution.
To recall, on March 1, in Islamabad the XIII high-level summit of the main countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) took place.
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is a regional intergovernmental economic organization, formed in 1985, by the Central Asia and the Middle East states and is the successor organization of Regional Cooperation for Development, which operates on the basis of the Constitution of the Treaty of Izmir, signed by the three countries founders Iran, Pakistan and Turkey on 12 March 1977.
Until early 1992, cooperation within the ECO was mostly bilateral. Since 1992, the ECO activities increased significantly in connection with the voluntary addition of seven new states Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. ECO enjoys observer status at the UN. ECO also has observer status in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The relations between the ECO countries are dominated by economic components and less pronounced political orientation. Major political and economic parameters of the ECO activities on biennial summits of Heads of States of the Member States, is held once in accordance with Article 4 of the Charter of the ECO.