ALWAGHT- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged ECO member states to develop and adopt a coherent, stability-enhancing, homegrown and development-focused security framework.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, addressing the fourth ECO Ministerial Meeting in Tehran, highlighted the organization’s role as a product of decades of regional efforts toward economic convergence. He stressed that successful regional cooperation requires strong, predictable, and resilient shared frameworks, urging ECO and neighboring countries to build a coherent, development-focused and homegrown security architecture.
Pezeshkian underlined the value of the ECO as a platform for dialogue, experience-sharing, and regional synergy. He pointed to the lack of a joint police force as a major gap, noting that the planned ECOPOL initiative remains incomplete. This absence, he said, weakens intra-regional security and limits effective cooperation with other regional and international police bodies.
He warned that the region continues to face foreign intervention and instability, citing the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the ongoing situation in Gaza as grave humanitarian and security concerns. Pezeshkian cautioned that international “extremists and norm-breakers” remain eager to interfere in the region, underscoring the urgency of strengthening collective regional security.
