The 3rd Meeting of the ECO High Level Experts Group (HLEG) on Privatization and Private Sector Development was held in Baku on 20 May 2009. The Meeting was hosted by the State Committee for Property Issues of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Delegates from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as well as representatives of the ECO Secretariat participated in the Meeting.
The HLEG met back-to-back with the 4th Meeting of the Heads of Privatization Administration of the ECO Member States on May 21, 2009. Delegates from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as well as representatives from the ECO Secretariat participated in the Meeting.
The Meeting was inaugurated by H.E. Mr. Karam Hassanov, Chairman of the State Committee for Property Issues of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Mr. Metin Genckol, Director of Agriculture, Industry and Tourism of ECO Secretariat.
The Meeting reviewed the report of the 3rd ECO HLEG Meeting on Privatization and Private Sector Development. The meeting, endorsing the report, called on the member states to take necessary measures for the implementation of decisions taken by the 3rd HLEG. The participants noted with satisfaction that the ECO website on Privatization had been initiated and would be developed into a joint website by April 2010. They would extend full cooperation to the Turkish Privatization Administration for construction of the joint website. Member States discussed Turkey's proposal to exchange of expert in the field of privatization. The meeting agreed to develop a framework for that purpose. Meanwhile, the member states would follow bilateral programmes to that end.
Turkey would host the 5th Meeting of the Heads of Privatization Administration and the 4th HLEG Meeting in the first half of 2010.
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