Economic Cooperation Organization 经济合作组织

The Economic Cooperation Organisation or ECO (Persian:سازمان همکاری اقتصادی‎‎, Urdu:اقتصادی تعاون تنظیم‎, Turkish:Ekonomik İşbirliği Teşkilatı, Kazakh:Экономикалық ынтымақтастық ұйымы, Uzbek:Iqtisodiy Hamkorlik Tashkiloti, Azerbaijani:İqtisadi Əməkdaşlıq Təşkilatı, Tajik: Ташкилоти ҳамкории иқтисодӣ) is a Eurasian political and economic intergovernmental organization which was founded in 1985 in Tehran by the leaders of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. It provides a platform to discuss ways to improve development and promote trade and investment opportunities. The ECO is an ad hoc organization under the United Nations Charter (Chap. VIII). The objective is to establish a single market for goods and services, much like the European Union. ECO's secretariat and cultural department are located in Tehran, its economic bureau is in Turkey and its scientific bureau is situated in Pakistan.