F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday underlined the need for making the Economic Coordination Organization (ECO) a more active and vibrant body, having better cooperation and linkages among member states. Addressing at two-day 3rd ECO Attorney / Prosecutors General Conference, the Chairman said, “The ECO can be made a model organizations.
We need to engage all three pillars of the State including Legislature, Judiciary and Executive to make our regional organization, next to none. It shall only be achieved with our joint efforts and with clear future bonding in mind”. He said Pakistan was willing to play its role in whatever capacity to have robust and strategic relationship amongst ECO membership. He said the conference would discuss mechanisms for mutual legal assistance and cooperation amongst member states in fight against transnational organized crime, common principles for fight against corruption/ money laundering and preventive measures that could be taken with mutual assistance in the fight against transnational crimes, amongst other things. Raza Rabbani said the Quetta Plan of Action was a landmark achievement of ECO, recognizing the need for connectivity of the region and commitment to develop the same to facilitate trade, interaction and harmony. He said this Century for Asia marked the region as the centre of conspiracy to destabilize the region on ethnic, cultural and national divides.
“The major players are trying to create ‘’Regional conflicting hegemonies’ to feed the cold war necessities,” he said. He said Nations in the region lost sight of their future and stood split on ethnic and other divides for no good of their own, feeding only the purposes of ‘Major players’ in the cold war. “The region as a whole has seen extreme waves of destabilization and Pakistan, being strategically located, has remained the forefront of this subversion,” he said.
