TEHRAN- Iran will host the 13th Regional Summit of Asia-Pacific International Cooperatives Alliance (ICA) in autumn 2018, the Head of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives Bahman Abdollahi announced.

As Mehr news agency reported on Sunday, the 2017 ICA Global Conference will be held in Malaysian capital in autumn.

The ICA is a non-profit international association established in 1895 to advance the co-operative social enterprise model. The Alliance is the apex organization for co-operatives worldwide, representing 284 co-operative federations and organizations across 95 countries. The members of the Alliance are national level co-operative federations, individual co-operative organizations and government offices concerned with co-operatives.

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