ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said the member countries of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) were determined to realize the vision of making the region a zone of peace and prosperity.
"Collectively, we have committed ourselves to working together for bringing progressive change to the lives of the half of billion people in our region, transforming it into a bastion of peace, progress and prosperity," the Prime Minister said in a joint stakeout with ECO Secretary General Halil Ibrahim Akca at the conclusion of the summit.
He said the ECO states were also determined to collectively face the challenges of extremism, terrorism and drug trafficking for a peaceful region.
Nawaz Sharif said the ECO region straddled the centre of Eurasian land mass and its geography made it indispensable for East-West connectivity.
This region, he said, had always been a route for exchange of cultures and ideas.
He said the participating leaders of the summit had directed the ECO governing bodies to build and promote multi-dimensional connectivity in keeping with the summit's theme 'connectivity for regional prosperity'.
He said the collective political will of the ECO states had been unambiguously reflected in the Islamabad Declaration adopted by the summit.
The declaration, he said, underlined the importance of fully exploiting the economic complimentarities of member states, simultaneously strengthening their historic and civilizational bonds and to act as the bedrock for regional integration.
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