ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The National Assembly will host the first-ever General Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of Economic Cooperation Organisation (PAECO) from Sunday for increased cooperation among ECO Parliaments.

Speakers and parliamentarians from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will participate in the three-day meeting and will ratify the Charter to formalise its launching. The charter is elaborative on its multidimensional activities.

Since member countries have many things in common, besides being geographically close and economically resourceful, the assembly of the ECO Parliaments, therefore, will enhance the prospects of close cooperation through people-to-people contact.

A spokesman of National Assembly said that the assembly will play a vital role in binding together these peoples whom the ECO unite in the common fraternity by community of their interest and by their desire for strengthening democracy, working for freedom and protection of human rights of all citizens which is hallmark of parliamentary democracy.

All Parliaments of ECO are entitled to become Members of the Assembly, without election or any other formality.