Public Relations and Int’l Affairs Reports: The 9^th ECOSAI Assembly was held from 25 to 26 August 2022 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Assemblies are held triennially, in which the Chair for the next term is elected by vote of member countries. Economic Cooperation Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ECOSAI) comprises Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkmenistan, Türkiye and Uzbekistan as member countries and Belarus, Kuwait, Palestine and Qatar as observer members.

The Accounts Committee for Control over Execution of the Republican Budget of the Republic of Kazakhstan as the outgoing Chair of ECOSAI hosted the 9^th Assembly. During the election process, SAI of the Islamic Republic of Iran was elected as the new Chair for the period 2022 – 2025. SAC is one of the co-founders of ECOSAI and has had the position of ECOSAI leadership for three terms in the three decades of the existence of this organization.

After the elections, Dr. Mehrdad Bazrpash, the President of SAC, thanked the Chairwoman of SAI Kazakhstan for their hospitality and arrangement of the meeting, and stated that the Supreme Audit Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue to further ECOSAI scope and develop ECOSAI into a more Technological and People-based organization.