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Continued Afghan war may overshadow ECO summit
ASHKHABAD, May 12: The continuing war in Afghanistan will overshadow a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Turkmenistan aimed at boosting regional cooperation, diplomats here said, reports AFP.
Created 12 years ago. the ECO brings together 10 central Asian states lor regular talks but has yet to deliver tangible benefits, regional rivalry between Iran and Turkey as well as the war in Afghanistan have hamstrung efforts to forge economic and trade links between member states.
"Economics and business will dominate the meetings at the conference but the war in Afghanistan will occupy the hearts." a European diplomat here said.
On Saturday at a meeting with his Tajik counterpart in Dushanbe. Iranian President, All Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, stressed the importance of a peaceful solution in Afghanistan.
"Peace in the region is the catalyst for fruitful economic cooperation," said Rafsanjani, who recently had criticised ECO's lack of results, last month he said he wanted to see some" firm "firm decisions" taken at this week's meeting.
Hopes of finding a common approach to ending the 17-year-old civil war were also expressed by the Tajik Foreign Minister. Talbak Nazarov.
However, the line-up for Tuesday's summit which will be attended by leaders from member states Iran. Afghanistan. Azerbaijan. Kajakhstan. Turkey. Pakistan. Kyrgyzstan. Tajikistan. Turkemenlstan and Uzbekistan, reflects the tensions over the war.
Though the purist Muslim Taliban militia control some two-thirds of the country. Afghanistan will be represented by Afghan President Burhanu-ddln Rabbani who fled Kabul last September before the Taliban seized control of the
capital.
Rabbani shares control of the northern third of the country with allies, ethnic-Uzbek warlord general Abdul Rashid Dostam and Shiite Muslim faction based in the control plain.
Equally, Pakistan, which supports the Taliban, is not sending its president like the other states, but Nawaz Sharif, the recently elected prime minister, a Pakistani diplomat here said it was possible that a Taliban delegation could turn up on the fringes of the meeting.
If they do. they will be interested to hear a presentation by Turkeminstan President Saparamoured Niazov on plans to build a 2.5 billion dollar gas pipeline across Afghanistan.
If constructed, the 1.280-kilometre (800-mile) pipeline will carry 20 billion cubic metres (700 trillion cubic feet) of gas each year from Turkmen & fields to Pakistan via Tal-controlled parts of the war torn republic.