چکیده:
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this regard. ECO has followed its two major plans in the context of “Action Plan” and "Istanbul Declaration". Each of these documents is an indication of overall goals of this organization by 2005. One of the most important goals of ECO members has been accelerated of economic growth and development. The main question of this paper is:
“Has ECO been able to fulfill declared goals among member states?” The hypothesis of this paper is: ECO has failed to achieve these goals. Prove of this hypothesis makes the revision of ECO activities a necessary step
خلاصه ماشینی:
"In order to expand inter and intra–regional trades, gradual elimination of trade barriers in ECO region; free access to new materials and member state's goods in markets outside ECO region; expansion of preferential tariff arrangements, from executive perspective and their boundaries; liberalization of intra–regional trades by simplifying national regulations for customs and duties, trade of goods, absorbing and support for foreign investment, resolution of trade disputes with attention to member states international obligations, have been taken into consideration(10).
Expansion of inter and intra regional trade is one of the most important goals of Eco. In order to materialize these goals, members must take the following steps into consideration: - Gradual elimination of trade barriers and harmonized attempts to make access to raw materials and member's goods in markets outside the region; expansion of preferential tariff, from executive perspective and their boundaries; liberalization of regional trade base on all possible means such as facilitated national regulations in areas of customer duties, trade of goods, absorbing and support for foreign investments; resolution of trade disputes, adoption of shared views on regional economic groups.
ECO has appropriate grounds for expansion of economic cooperation which mainly are as follow: geographic condition, security and political necessities, international circumstances, historical and cultural ties, economic benefits of multilateral cooperation, possibility of cooperation with other regional and international organization's facilities for execution of common projects, expansion and utilization of communication networks between member states, utilization of common economic institutions such as insurance, shipping and airlines sectors, the possibility for execution of joint research, and expansion of business exchanges based on fixed amount of exchanges and tariffs."