Calendar of Events for the years 2009-2010
Trade & Investment
i) First Priority
Sr.No. | Event/Activity | Remarks | Venue/Date |
1 | a) 4th ECO Ministerial Meeting on Commerce/Foreign Trade b) 5th HLEG on Trade and Investment and other related matters c) Workshop on Potential Benefits of ECOTA
| Kazakhstan offered to host these three events back-to-back during the 1st half of 2009 | Astana, 1st half of 2009 |
2 | 2nd Meeting of the ECOTA Cooperation Council.
3rd Meeting of the ECOTA Cooperation Council.
| Turkey offered to host.
Afghanistan may host as decided by 1st Meeting of ECOTA Cooperation Council | Ankara Date to be determined
To be determined |
3 | Trilateral Interim Committee Meeting on Establishment of ECO Reinsurance Company | Pakistan will host the signing ceremony of the Articles of Agreement.
| To be determined |
4 | 2nd meeting of the Heads of Central Banks of ECO Member States | Iran | 2009 |
5 | 7th meeting of ECO Council of Heads of Customs Administration and 3rd meeting of the Sub Committee of Experts (SCOEs) of Customs Administrations. | Pakistan confirmed to host in 2009 | To be determined |
6 | 2nd Meeting of ECO Heads of TPOs | Azerbaijan offered to host | 2009 |
7 | EGM on Exchange of Technical Expertise on SPS/TBT among ECO Member States
| Pakistan offered to host.
| To be determined by Pakistan |
8 | a) 4th ECO Business Forum; and b) 3rd Buyers/Sellers Meeting on Building Material/ Auto Parts Industry under the implementation of 2nd Phase of ECO Project on Expansion of Intra-regional Trade. | Member States may volunteer to host. | To be determined
|
9 | 3rd ECO Trade Fair | Kazakhstan | Astana |
10 | 1st ECO Printing and Packaging Specialized Fair
| I.R. Iran | Tehran September/October 2009. |
11 | 2nd EGM on Corruption and Money Laundering | Kyrgyz Republic | To be determined |
12 | Orientation Seminars on ECO Trade Net for NFPs and officials of Economic Ministries | To be hosted by all Member States | March-June 2009 |
13 | Seminar on ECO Women Entrepreneurship Development | Uzbekistan | To be determined by Uzbekistan |
14 | 1st Meeting of ECO Heads of Tax Administrations | Iran | To be determined |
15 | 1st Meeting of the ECO Commodity and Stock Exchanges | Iran | To be determined |
ii) Second Priority
1 | 10th General Assembly of ECO-CCI
| To be determined | To be determined |
2 | 13th Executive Committee Meeting of ECO-CCI | Turkey offered to host | Istanbul June , 2009 |
Non-ECO Activities
1 | Events organized by UNIDO, WTO, WCO and WIPO | To be determined | To be determined |
2 | OIC COMCEC & Business Forum | To be determined | To be determined |
Transport and Communications
I. Transport
No. | Event/Activity | Venue | Date |
1. | Third Meeting of the Insurance Committee of the TTCC | Kazakhstan | 2009 |
2. | Third Meeting of the Railway Committee of the TTCC | Kazakhstan | 2009 |
3. | First Meeting of the Legal Committee of the TTCC | Kazakhstan | 2009 |
4. | Third Meeting of the Road Committee of the TTCC | Kazakhstan | 2009 |
5. | 2nd Meeting of the Transit Trade Committee | Kazakhstan | 2009 |
6. | Fourth Meeting of the TTCC
| Kazakhstan | 2009 |
7. | The Meeting of En-route countries of Almaty-Bandar Abbas Container Train | Kazakhstan | 2009 |
8. | 1st Meeting of the ECO-CB | To be determined | 2009 |
9. | 10th Meeting of the Heads of ECO Railway Authorities | Pakistan | 2009 |
10. | 2nd Meeting of the 5 En-route Countries of the container train | Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan | 2009 |
11. | National Workshops on Multimodal Transport | Pakistan | March 2009 |
12. | National Workshops on Multimodal Transport | Tajikistan | Early 2009 |
13. | National Workshops on Multimodal Transport | Turkey | Feb/March 2009 |
14. | National Workshops on Multimodal Transport | Uzbekistan | Early 2009 |
15. | 2nd Meeting of the Civil Aviation Authorities/ Heads of National Airlines. | To be determined | Yet to be determined. |
16. | Second Meeting of the High Level Expert Group Meeting for Implementation of the ECO Programme of Action for Transportation | Afghanistan | 2009 |
17. | Second Preparatory Meeting of ECOLPAF | Turkey | 2009 |
18. | 8th ECO Ministerial Meeting on Transport & Communications. | The Kyrgyz Republic | 2010 |
19. | Inter-Agency Meeting of ECO, OTIF, UIC, OSJD, ESCAP, IDB, UNECE and UNCTAD on the proposed TA and Transport Investment Projects. | ECO Secretariat | 2009 (exact dates to be determined) |
20. | 5th Meeting of Heads of Reference Marine Organizations of ECO Member States | Yet to be determined | Yet to be determined |
21. | National Workshop on TIR Convention | Afghanistan | 2009 |
22. | National Workshop on TIR Convention | Pakistan | 2009 |
23. | Joint regional workshop on accession to and implementation of International Convention referred to in TTFA. | ECO Secretariat | March 10-12, 2009 |
24. | Missions to en-route countries the Istanbul-Urumchi container train + Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan | Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan | 2009 (1st half) |
25. | Expert Group Meeting on visa simplification within TTFA. | ECO Secretariat | 2009 |
26. | OTIF Workshop on Rail Transport between Europe and Asia | Istanbul | June 9-10, 2009 |
27. | Regional ECO plus China Seminar on Silk Road | Tehran | 2nd half of 2009 |
II. Post & Telecommunication
1. | 5th Meeting of ECO Postal Authorities. | Pakistan | 2009 |
2. | Workshop on privatization of postal services and cost accounting | Iran | May 2009 |
3. | Committee on networking of postal financial services and e-shopping | Turkey | 2009 |
4. | 14th Meeting of the Directors of National Telecommunication Companies of the ECO Member States | Iran | Sept/Oct 2009 |
III. Non-ECO Events (To be Specified)
No. | Event | Venue | Date |
1. | Policy-level Expert Group Meeting on Operationalization of International Intermodal Transport Corridors in North-East and Central Asia | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 4-5 March 2009, |
2. | 14th Session of the SPECA project working Group on Transport and Border Crossing | Almaty | March 19-20, 2009 |
3. | 1st Steering Committee Meeting on the Demonstration Runs of Transport Operation along the international Inter-modal Transport corridors in North-East and Central Asia | Republic of Korea/Russian Federation | July 2009 |
4. | IRU 121st Session of the Working Party on Transport and 47th Session of the Administrative Committee for the TIR Convention | Geneva | February 2-6, 2009 |
5. | UNECE EGM on Euro Asia Transport Linkages (EATL) | Shanghai China | 2009 |
Energy, Mineral and Environment
Sr. No. | Event/Meeting
| Venue | Date |
1. | 1st Meeting of ECO Working Group on New and Renewable Sources of Energy | Tehran, Iran | 2009 |
2. | 2nd ECO Ministerial Meeting on Energy/Petroleum | Dushanbe, Tajikistan
| 2009 |
3. | HLEG Meeting on Energy | To be determined | 2009 (Before the 2nd ECO Ministerial Meeting on Energy) |
4. | 4th ECO Minerals Expert Group Meeting | Astana, Kazakhstan | 2009 |
5. | 2nd Meeting of the Heads of Geological Surveys of the ECO Member States | To be determined | 2009-10 |
6. | 4th ECO Ministerial Meeting on Environment to be preceded by the Meeting of Senior Officials | Islamabad, Pakistan | April 2009 |
7. | 2nd Experts Meeting on Ecotourism | To be determined | 2009 |
8. | Pre-Cop (Conference of Parties) Meeting on Biodiversity | Antalya-Turkey | March/April or Nov/Dec 2009 |
9. | 6th Meeting of ECO Working Group on Environment | Iran | 2009 (After 4th MM) |
10. | 2nd Expert Group Meeting on Biodiversity | Astana, Kazakhstan | 2009 |
11. | Expert Meeting of ABS (Access and Benefit Sharing) on Biodiversity | Pakistan | 2009 |
12. | Meeting on Trans-Boundary Movement of Biological Specimens and Species | Iran - Tehran | First quarter of 2009 |
13. | Experts Meeting on Alien Invasive Species | Turkmenistan | 2010 |
Events offered by the member states
Sr. No. | Event/Meeting
| Venue |
Date |
1. | Workshops on Refinery · Processing of Heavy Cuts · Petroleum Products · Refining Processes of Petroleum Products
| Iran | 2009 |
2. | Seminar on New and Renewable Sources of Energy | Pakistan | 27 October, 2009 |
3. | 2nd Workshop/Training Course on Watershed Rehabilitation | Iran | 2009 |
4. | Workshop and Exhibition on Renewable Energy Sources | Turkey | September, 2009 |
5. | 8th International Course for Energy Managers | Ankara, Turkey | 25 May – 8 June 2009 |
Events to be organized in cooperation with the International Organizations
Sr. No. | Event/Meeting
| Venue |
Date |
1. | 3rd ECO-WB Workshop on Regional Electricity Trade | To be determined | 2009 |
2. | Joint ECO-OPEC workshop | ECO Secretariat, Tehran | 2009 |
Non ECO events
Sr. No. | Event/Activity
| Venue |
Date |
1. | Sub-regional Working Group meeting on Energy Trade and Interconnection led by UN ESCAP and ECO | To be determined | 2009 |
2. | 20th Annual IDB Symposium on “Partnering for Hydropower Development and Electricity Trade in Central Asia ”. | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | April 2009 |
3. | 34th Annual Meeting of the IDB Board of Governors | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | 2-3 June 2009 |
Agriculture, Industry and Tourism
Agriculture
S No. | Event | Venue | Date |
1 | 5th Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and 4th SOM | To be determined | 2010 |
2 | 2nd ECO Heads of Meteorological Organizations Meeting | To be determined | 2009 |
3 | 1st Meeting of National Focal Points on establishment of ECO Biotechnology Network (ECO-ABN) | Iran | May/June 2009 |
4 | 2nd Task Force Meeting on the Establishment of ECO-VECO | Iran | End of February 2009 |
5 | 2nd Meeting of the Heads of ECO Veterinary Organizations | Turkey | 2nd half of April 2009 |
6 | Central Asia and Caucasus Seed Trade Conference (CACSTC 2008) | Turkey | 4-6 December 2009 |
7 | 1st Coordination Meeting on the Implementation of the Regional Program for Food Security (RPFS) and follow up to the donor’s Conference to work out details of contribution | To be determined | 2009 |
8 | 1st Committee Meeting on Establishment of ECO Regional Seed Association. | Antalya | March 2-6 2009 |
9 | Joint visit by ECO/FAO and ICARDA to IDB Headquarters | Jeddah | 2009 |
10 | Working meetings with Donor Institutions (WB, JICA, ICARDA, FAO, ECO TDB, TIKA and CGIAR) supporting ECO-RPFS | To be determined | 2009-10 |
Industry
S. No. | Event | Venue | Date |
1. | 4th ECO Ministerial Meeting on Industry and 3rd High Level Experts Group (HLEG) | To be determined | 2009 |
2. | 3rd EGM on Standardization, Conformity Assessment, Accreditation and Metrology | Tehran | 1-2 Feb, 2009 |
3 | 3rd HLEG and 4th ECO Heads of Privatization Administration Meeting | Baku | April/May 2009 |
4. | 1st Steering Committee Meeting on Nanotechnology Network | To be determined | 2009 |
5. | 2nd Permanent Committee Meeting on Establishing ECO Technology Transfer Center | To be determined | 2009 |
6. | First Coordination Committee Meeting on Industrial Property Rights | Turkey | June 2009 |
7. | 2nd ECO Steering Committee Meeting on SME | Pakistan | 2009 |
8. | 3rd Workshop on Privatization | Iran | November 2009 |
9. | Training Workshop on Best Practices by KOSGEB | Turkey | 2nd half of 2009 |
10. | Task Force Meeting on Establishment of ECO Representative Office for Development of Science and New Technologies in Almaty | Tehran
| February 2009 |
11. | Taskforce Meeting on Cooperation among Stock Exchange of Member States | Iran | September 2009 |
Tourism
1. | 2nd ECO Ministerial Meeting on Tourism and 3rd High Level Experts Group (HLEG) | Turkey(tentatively) | 1st half of October 2009 |
2. | 1st ECO Tourism Festival Day | Gilan | 2009 |
3. | 1st Working Group Meeting on revival of silk road | Afghanistan | 2009 |
Human Resource and Sustainable Development
Human and Sustainable Development
No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Date |
1. | 3rd Meeting of High Level Experts Group (HLEG) on Human Development and prospect of MDG implementation | Iran | 1st half of 2009 |
Health:
No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Date |
2 | The 1st ECO Ministerial Meeting on Health (Secretariat’s proposal) | To be Determined | 2009/2010 |
3. | 2nd High Level Experts Group (HLEG) meeting on Drug Regulatory Authorities | Pakistan | 3rd quarter of 2009 |
4. | 2nd Meeting of ECO Heads/Authorities of Blood Transfusion Organizations | Turkey | April 2010 |
5. | 2nd ECO Study Tour for Health Authorities of member states | Turkey | 1st half of 2009 |
6. | Workshop on Quality System in Blood Transfusion | Tehran, Iran | May/June 2009 |
7. | Workshop on Voluntary Donor Recruitment | Tehran, Iran | May/June 2009 |
8. | Workshop on Quality Control of pharmaceuticals | Tehran, Iran | 21-23 February. 2009 |
9. | Workshop on Pharmacovigilance | Tehran, Iran | 2009 |
10. | Workshop on Women and other Health Volunteers | Tehran, Iran | 2009 |
Natural Disaster Management
No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Date |
11. | The 4th ECO International Disaster Risk Management | Tajikistan | 2009 |
12. | Promotion of the concept of the Disaster Risk Reduction for media | To be determined | Early 2009 |
13. | Symposium on Drought Management | Iran | Early 2009 |
14. | Workshop on Climate Change and Natural disaster
| Iran | 2009 |
15 | Expert Group Meeting on implementation of the recommendations made by the Third ECO International Conference on Disaster Risk Reductions | Afghanistan | 2nd half of 2009 |
16 | Regional Seminar on Cooperation on Disaster Risk Management | To be determined | 1st half of 2009 |
Drug Control:
No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Date |
17 | Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on Combating Trans-national Organized Crime for evolving a plan of Action | Turkey | 1st half of 2009 |
18 | 3rd ECO Interior Ministers’ meeting | Turkey | Mid-October, 2009 |
19 | First Meeting of Border Commanders of ECO Member States | Iran | 2-3 March, 2009 |
20 | Experts Group Meeting (EGM) on Terrorism | Pakistan | March 2009 |
21 | Workshop on Drug Demand Reduction for Psychologists | Iran | 2009 |
22 | Workshop on Addiction Treatment for Physician | Iran | 2009 |
23 | Workshop on Drug Concealment Methods for Anti Narcotic Forces of Member States | Iran | 2009 |
24 | Meeting of Experts for preparation of a plan of cooperation on combating human trafficking and illegal migration | IOM
| 2009 |
25 | Workshop on Law Enforcement on Drug Issues | TADOC, Ankara | 15-19 June, 2009 |
26 | “Train the Trainers Course” (Narcotic & Custom Officers) | TADOC, Ankara | June, 2009 |
27 | 2nd Senior Official Meeting (SOM) on Drug Control Matters | Islamabad, Pakistan | 2009 |
28 | 2nd High Level Experts Group Meeting on Combating Drug, Terrorism and Organized Crime | To be determined | 2009 |
29 | 1st annual meetings of Chiefs of Police of ECO Member States | Pakistan | 2009 |
30 | 1st Meeting of National Coordinators | Iran | 2009 |
Non-ECO Event:
No. | Title of Meeting | Venue | Date |
1 | MDG/Human Development meeting within the context of UNDP/UNESCAP |
| 2009 |
2 | The Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk reduction titled " Disaster, Poverty and Vulnerability" | Geneva, | 16-17 June, 2009 |
3 | Meeting with the OECD on the issue of the School Earthquake Safety | Paris | 2009 |
Project and Economic Research & Statistics
Sr. No. | Event/Meeting | Venue |
Date |
1. |
2nd Meeting of Heads of National Statistical Offices
| Astana, Kazakhstan |
June, 2009 |
2. | 2nd High Level Expert Group Meeting (HLEGM) | Tentative venue - Dushanbe, Tajikistan
| Tentative date – during 2009 |
3. |
7th National Focal Points Meeting (NFPM)
| Kyrgyzstan | Summer 2009 |
4. | Seminar on National Accounts
| Tehran, Iran
| mid-May 2009 |
5. |
Training workshop on Geosciences Information System (GIS)
| Tehran, Iran | mid-April of 2009 |
6. | Joint ECO Event with an International Partner Organization (potentially SESRIC and FAO)
| Tentative to be finalized with an International Partner Organization |
|
7. |
Meeting of the Senior Officials of Economic Research Institute/organizations/departments of Member States | As mandated by the 18th RPC | During 2009 |
Non ECO Event
1. | The 2nd Euro-Asian Economic Forum (Economic Security in Euro-Asia in the System of Global Risks) | Astana | 11-12 March, 2009 |
2. | UNESCAP, The First Meeting of the Statistical Committee | Bangkok- Thailand | February 2009 |
Meetings of the decision making organs of ECO
No | Event/Activity | Venue | Date |
1. | 19th Meeting of the Regional Planning Council (RPC) | Iran | 11-15 January 2009 |
2. | Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) (Preparatory to the 18th COM) | To be determined | March, 2009
|
3. | 18th Meeting of the Council of Ministers (COM) | To be determined | March, 2009
|
4. | 10th ECO Summit | To be determined | March, 2009 |
5. | Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) | Tehran | 1st half of 2009 |
6. | 20th Meeting of the Regional Planning Council (RPC) | Turkey | January 2010 |
Meeting of the ECO Audit Board
No | Event/Activity | Venue | Date |
1. | ECO Audit Board | ECO Secretariat | April 2009 |
Specialized Agencies/Regional Institutions
Specialized Agencies/Regional Institutions
Sr. No. | Event | Venue | Date |
1 | 3rd High Level Experts Group Meeting on Culture | Herat, Afghanistan | 20th March 2009 |
2 | 4th Meeting of the BOT of ECO Cultural Institute | Herat, Afghanistan | 21st March 2009 |
3 | 2nd Experts Group Meeting of ECO Science Foundation | To be decided | 2009 |
4 | 1st Meeting of BOT of ECO Science Foundation | Islamabad, Pakistan | 2009 |
5 | 1st Meeting of BOT of ECO Educational Institute | Ankara, Turkey | 2009 |
International Relations (Non-ECO Events)
Sr. No. | Event | Venue | Date |
1. | 13th Consultative Meeting among executive heads of sub-regional organizations (ECO, SAARC, ASEAN, Pacific Island Forum) and UNESCAP | To be decided | 2009 |
2. | 36th Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM) | Damascus, Syria | May 2009 |
3. | Participation in the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly | New York, USA | September 2009 |
Informal Meeting of Council of Ministers (COM) on the sidelines of the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly |