Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar is to head to Istanbul on Thursday for the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) ministerial meeting, ISNA reported.
This is the second ECO meeting at the level of interior ministers.
Najjar is to hold talks with foreign officials in the meeting.
Senior experts of ECO member states met in Tehran in November with the gathering chaired by Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi.
ECO members involve the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Also Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flies into Turkey on Wednesday evening for ECO summit.
Ahmadinejad is to hold talks with Turkish authorities as well as officials of other countries during the two-day summit.
ECO provides a platform to discuss ways to improve development and promote trade, and investment opportunities.
The common objective is to establish a single market for goods and services.
ECO's secretariat and cultural department are located in Tehran, its economic bureau is in Turkey and its scientific bureau is situated in Pakistan.
The organization was founded by Turkey, Iran and Pakistan in 1985.
In the fall of 1992, ECO expanded to include seven new members, namely Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Activities of ECO are conducted through Directorates under the supervision of the Secretary General and his deputies which considered and evolve projects and programs of mutual benefit in the fields of trade and Investment, transport and telecommunications, energy, minerals and environment, agriculture, industry and tourism, human resources, sustainable development project and economic research and statistics.
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