A meeting of the Steering Committee on Regional Cooperation (SCRC) is in progress. The first meeting of the SCRC took place in the Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 25 February 2007. The Meeting was jointly chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E Dr Rangin Dafdar Spanta and Chief Economic Advisor to the President Prof Ishaq Naderi. The main purpose of SCRC is to further institutionalize regional cooperation within the government Ministries and agencies, with regional countries, with the donor community and with the multilateral organizations. .