- Iran’s FM Araghchi expected to attend ECO huddle.
- DPM Ishaq Dar to chair ECO ministers’ meeting: FO.
- OIC secretary general lands in Pakistan for meeting.
Delegates from friendly and regional countries began arriving in Islamabad on Sunday ahead of the 30th meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Council of Ministers, which begins in the federal capital today.
Turkiye’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the Turkish delegation, Musa Kulaklikaya, arrived in the federal capital, where he was received at the airport by officials of the foreign ministry, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Deputy Secretary General Ahmad Saidmurodzoda also landed in Islamabad to attend the high-level meeting, it added.
Among those arriving were Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Elnur Mammadov and Kazakhstan’s Deputy FM Arman Issagaliyev.
A day earlier, Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, reached the federal capital to participate in the meeting.
The meeting will be held on November 15-16 with an aim to strengthen regional connectivity and integration, the Foreign Office said on Saturday.
In a statement, the FO had said the meeting will be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, and will be attended by foreign ministers and heads of delegations of ECO member states, along with representatives of the ECO secretariat and its subsidiary bodies.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to attend the huddle in Islamabad amid ongoing Middle East conflict with mediators Pakistan and Qatar making efforts to broker peace deal between Iran and the US.
The FO had said that the ministerial meeting will be preceded by the Meeting of Senior Officials (SOM) of ECO Member States, which will review the activities and programmes of the organisation, assess the work of its subsidiary bodies, and finalise the agenda and draft outcome documents for consideration by the ministers during COM.
As chair of the ECO for 2026-2027, Pakistan will seek to advance the Organisation’s objectives under the theme “Reviving Regionalism for a Resilient ECO,” it added.
