The 1993 ECO summit was the second
Economic Cooperation Organization
The Economic Cooperation Organization or ECO is an Asian political and economic intergovernmental organization that was founded in 1985 in Tehran by the leaders of Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. It provides a platform to discuss ways to improve dev ...
summit, held between 6–7 May in
Istanbul
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, Turkey.
Afghanistan
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was welcomed as the 10th member state of the ECO during the summit.
Attending delegations
* President
Burhanuddin Rabbani
* Vice Prime Minister
Resul Guliev
* President
Hashemi Rafsanjani
* President
Nursultan Nazarbaev
* President
Askar Akaev
* Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...
* Chairman
Emomali Rahmanov
* President
Suleyman Demirel
Suleyman or Süleyman is a variant of Suleiman (the Arabic name ). It means "man of peace". Notable people with the name include:
Suleyman
*Suleyman I of Rûm or Suleiman ibn Qutulmish (d. 1086), founder of an independent Seljuq Turkish state i ...
* President
Saparmurad Niyazov
* President
Islam Karimov
References
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