According to the results of the 13th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (CFM ECO), Bekzhassar Narbayev, ex-vice foreign minister of Kazakhstan, ambassador of Kazakhstan in Pakistan, has been elected the secretary general of that organisation, a report circulated by the information and analysis department of MFA of RK says. For the first time a representative of a post-Soviet state has been appointed for a higher position in the ECO. In the meeting that took place on 11 June in Bishkek, delegations of the Provisional government of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, RK, KR, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, ECO secretary general took part. Also representatives of the IDB, FAO, UNCTAD, UNFPA and UNDP participated. The delegation of RK is headed by Kassymzhomart Tokayev, secretary of state - foreign minister of RK. The CFM participants reviewed the practical issues of cooperation within the ECO. Among the ECO priorities an establishment of a common general transport and communication infrastructure in the region for the purpose of maximum usage of transit transport potential, the development of trade, the activation of the ECO chamber of industry and commerce, the cooperation in agriculture, the industrial production, the production and refinery mineral resources, the tourism development, the development of cooperation in the environment protection were marked. (Kazakhstan Today)