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Regional Telecom Ties to Increase Iran plans to increase its interactions with other states in the communication fields, particularly with the member states of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), said minister of communications and information technology. “At present, communication and information technology indexes are standing at good levels, but we are eager to use other countries’ experiences” to still boost and bolster our performance, Reza Taqipour said, Fars News Agency reported. He added Iranian officials plan to hold several bilateral meetings with a number of regional countries in a bid to prepare the grounds for mutual cooperation. “We have also foreseen a meeting among the communication ministers of ECO member states and we will hold it in the second half of the current (Iranian) year (September 2012 - March 2013),” the minister said, adding the meeting will serve as an introduction to the expansion of cooperation with all the ECO members. 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, namely Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. | ||
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