TEHRAN - The first meeting of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) representatives, aiming to facilitate trade among member states will be held on Kish Island, the Persian Gulf, from May 22-24. 

 

A number of educational workshops will be also held on the sidelines of the meeting, the IRNA News Agency reported.

 

In September 2011, the ECO secretary general said that the organization plans to set up a common trade market among its member states.

 

“Under the agreement reached between ECO members, the common trade market should be established by 2015,” Muhammad Yahya Maroofi told IRNA news agency.

 

ECO is an intergovernmental regional organization established in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey with the aim of promoting economic, technical and cultural cooperation among member states.

 

The organization was expanded in 1992 to include seven new members: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.