ECO-IEST President, Alternative Member to the IPBES Bureau

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4th ECOSA Int'l
Seed Trade
Conference
&
4th General
Assembly
Meeting
Organized by the
ECO Seed
Association and TURKTOB in collaboration
with the ECO Secretariat, the
4th ECO Seed Association (ECOSA)
International Seed Trade Conference
(ECOSA-2013) and the 4th General
Assembly Meeting of ECOSA were
held in Istanbul on January 11-13,
2013 in which more than 200 private
Mirmahmutogullari, while thanking
Member States for joining ECOSA,
which currently consists of 70 private
companies and national seed associations
in ECO Region, noted that
cooperation among regional countries,
seed unions and seed companies
is essential for the success of
ECOSA.
He also thanked the international
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1st ECO
Coordination
Committee
Meeting on
Health
Tourism
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The 1st ECO
Coordination Committee
Meeting on Health Tourism was held on
December 18, 2012 in Mashhad, Iran, on the
sidelines of the 3rd Conference on Health
Tourism in Islamic Countries. The Meeting
and public sectors representatives and
seed sector specialists from
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran,
Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic,
Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and
Uzbekistan participated. The representatives
of the ECO Secretariat,
FAO, Seed Union of the Republic of
Turkey (TURKTOB) and International
Seed Federation (ISF) also attended
the Meeting.
After the welcoming statement by
Mete Komeagac, ECOSA President,
the Conference was inaugurated by
Vedat Mirmahmutogullari, Deputy
Undersecretary of the Ministry of
Food, Agriculture and Livestock of the
Republic of Turkey. Representatives of
ECO, FAO-SEC and ICARDA also
made their statements.
In his inaugural statement, Vedat
institutions, namely IDB, FAO, TURK-
TOB, ISF and ICARDA for their support
in the realization of the conference.ECO
Representative, in his statement,
gave brief information on seed
cooperation in the ECO region and
called on Member States for their
support for further membership to
ECOSA. Private Seed Companies
from the ECO Member States also
held bilateral buyers-sellers meetings
for extension of seed trade in the
region on the sidelines of the above
event.The 5th ECOSA Seed Trade
Conference and the 5th General
Assembly Meeting of ECOSA will be
organized in 2013-14 in Turkey or in
Kyrgyzstan on the sidelines of the
International Business Forum on Seed
in Central Asia to be held in Bishkek
in September, 2013.
was co-organized by the ECO Chamber of
Commerce and Industry in collaboration with
Razavi Hospital and the ECO Secretariat and
was attended by the delegates from
Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz
Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and
the ECO Secretariat.President of the ECO
Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Mohammad Nahavanvian, inaugurated the
meeting. In his opening remarks, he underlined
the importance of promotion of Health
Tourism in ECO Member States.
The meeting deliberated on the agenda
items and came up with recommendations:
Developing regional arrangements for
health /medical tourism cooperation was
strongly supported and requested for active
participation of all Member States in health
tourism events/activities in the ECO region
especially in the workshop in March 2013 in
Turkey.
The Committee agreed to have regular
ECO coordination meetings alongside the
next Conferences on Health Tourism in
Islamic Countries.
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