Turkey to chair Asia Cooperation Dialogue

By Gozde Bayar</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – Turkey will chair the Asia Cooperation Dialogue, the foreign ministry announced Tuesday.</p> <p>“Turkey will assume the Chairmanship of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue in September 2019 for one year,” the ministry said in a statement.</p> <p>It said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will attend the 16th Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday.</p> <p>The Asia Cooperation Dialogue was established as an intergovernmental forum in 2002 to develop cooperation between Asian countries and improve the competitiveness of Asia at the global level.