On the Proposal of the Geological Survey of Iran, a Landslide Risk Zonation Map for ECO Member States Is Prepared.

On the Proposal of the Geological Survey of Iran, a Landslide Risk Zonation Map for ECO Member States Is Prepared.

The 35th Regional Planning Council (RPC) of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was held at the secretariat of this organization in Tehran.
The Geological Surey of Iran, as the focal point for the country’s disaster risk reduction sector, attended the meeting with Ms. Hanieh Bakhshaee, head of the International Department of GSI , and Mr. Reza Shahbazi, Director General of the Geological, Engineering and Environmental Hazards Assessment Office.

Following this meeting, the GSI proposed project under the title of the preparation of a landslide hazard zonation map for ECO member countries (LHZ), which had been approved and ratified at the 2022 ECO member countries’ validation meeting was supported by the member states, and it was decided that the ECO secretariat would provide the necessary facilities for its implementation.It is worth mentioning that the 35th meeting of the Regional Planning Council (RPC) of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) began in Tehran on March 26 for four days with the participation of high-ranking delegations from relevant ministries and organizations of the ECO member countries. As the key decision-making body of the organization, the council will discuss and approve the annual work program of ECO  as well as the  planning  of its activities  for 2025 .

In recent months, ECO’s activities to promote cooperation between countries in various fields have increased significantly, and this meeting is of particular importance to mark the year 2025 as a turning point with several important ministerial meetings in the fields of trade, tourism, finance, transport, interior affairs and sustainable development, as well as the 17th ECO Summit to be held in Azerbaijan on July 3-4, 2025. In this regard, the ECO Secretariat reiterates its deep commitment to further pursue and expand regional cooperation among its members.

It is worth noting that the ECO is a regional intergovernmental organization for development, established in 1964 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey with the aim of promoting economic and cultural cooperation among its member countries. Since 1992, its membership has increased to 10 countries with the admission of seven new countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).