Who was the third founding member of RCD along with Pakistan and Iran?
Who was the third founding member of RCD along with Pakistan and Iran?
(A) Syria
(B) Afghanistan
(C) Turkey
(D) Turkmenistan
THE third founding nation of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) together with Pakistan and Iran was Turkey (also known as Turkiye in history). The RCD was formed on July 21, 1964, as a trilateral intergovernmental organization to facilitate socio-economic, technical, and cultural cooperation among the three founding nations, as a regional bloc, especially for the members of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO). This regional bloc was headquartered in Tehran and was later renamed and reformed as the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in 1985.