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The president will visit Pakistan upon an official invitation of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
President's Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Information Parviz Esmaeili said that President Rouhani will attend the ECO summit to convey Iran’s stance to leaders of the ECO member states.
The president will also meet a number of his counterparts from the ECO states on the sidelines of the summit, Esmaeili added.
He said that a number of cabinet members and president advisors accompany Rouhani during the two-day visit.
The 13th Summit of ECO heads of states will be held on March 1 and will be preceded by the 22nd Meeting of the ECO Council of Foreign Ministers (COM) on 28th February while senior officials from the member states will meet on 26th and 27th February to make final preparations for the summit.
Pakistan is hosting the ECO summit for the second time since 1995. The last ECO Summit was held in October 2012 in Baku.
ECO is a ten-member regional organization, which includes Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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