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Development’ and resolved that appropriate means should be adopted to set up co-operation ‘in all fields ‘in a spirit of ‘regional co-operation.’ It was decided to create three Ministerial Councils composed of Foreign Ministers and a Regional Planning Committee which will be consisted of the heads of these tri-national planning organizations a permanent Secretariat was later established at Tehran. A few months later president Cevdet Sunay said that Turku-Pakistani relations had reached a level for above that of alliances (Burke, 1973).

The Secretariat was established in Tehran. The first Secretary General of RCD was an Iranian Dr Fuad Rouhani. It has often argued that the RCD was a result of disillusionment of three states with CENTO, through it is also considered by some to be the most satisfying and potentially the most faithful, partnership which Pakistan has so far forged with the Muslims countries. (Ziring, 1990)
Tehran Meeting of RCD October 1964

During the meeting of Ministerial Council of RCD held in Tehran in October 1964 it was decided that the charges for telephone calls between the countries of the region be substantially reduced. As a good step towards promoting cooperation among the three states Iran, Turkey and Pakistan that were signed as an agreement on 16 October for abolition of visas amongst them (Ali, 2001).
The RCD initiated to speech itself to the possibility of some very ambitious projects. In October 1964 Ministerial Council of the RCD meeting which was arranged in Tehran called for the preparation of a preliminary report on the setting up of a joint airline. That project was tracked for a long time but it proved a non-starter. At the same time another RCD project related to the formation of a conference arrangement between Pakistan, Iran and Turkey for pooling their traffic and ships on specific and agreed routes as a first phase towards the establishing of a joint maritime line (Ali, 2001).

Develop of the RCD Joint Shipping Lines March 1965