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PR. No.287/2008
Date: 25/09/2008
PAKISTAN TO HOST 10 TH ECO SUMMIT EARLY NEXT YEAR
Speaking at the informal meeting of the ECO Council of Ministers held in New York on the sidelines of the 63 rd Session of UN General Assembly the Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that the Government of Pakistan will host the 10 th ECO Summit in Pakistan . The Summit will be preceded by the Council of Ministers meeting. The dates for the Summit will be ascertained through normal diplomatic channels.
The Foreign Minister stressed that Pakistan looked forward to participation of the ECO Member States in the Summit at the highest political level. He also recalled that hosting the tenth ECO summit will be a special privilege for the democratic government led by the Pakistan Peoples Party, as the third ECO summit hosted by Pakistan in March 1995 was chaired by Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed.
The Council of the Ministers meeting, chaired by the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, was attended by Foreign Ministers and senior officials of ECO member states.
New York
25 September 2008 |