Kazakhstan takes part in Council of Foreign Ministers of ECO

The event was attended by the heads of the foreign ministries of the member states and the ECO specialized agencies.

The ministers agreed on the draft agenda for the upcoming ECO summit and its final document - the Ashgabat Consensus for Action (Ashgabat Declaration), which is planned to be adopted at a meeting of the leaders of the ECO countries.

The Council approved the report of the ECO Secretary General on the activities of the ECO Secretariat with recommendations on regional ECO projects for 2021-2022 and the Secretariat’s budget for 2022 as well as the report on ECO Vision Midterm Review 2025.

In addition, the meeting approved candidates nominated for the ECO Award. In the category History, culture, literature and art, the candidacy of Orazak Ismagulov, the head of the laboratory of physical anthropology of the National Museum under the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan was approved.

In the end of the COM meeting there was held a ceremony of signing a Memorandum of Understanding between ECO and ESCAP.

On the eve of the ministerial meeting, within the framework of the ECO business forum, a Memorandum aimed at increasing freight traffic along the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway corridor was signed.