Home>>World
Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, August 21, 2002

SAARC FM Meeting Begins in Kathmandu

Foreign ministers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries began the 23rd Council of Ministers meeting in Kathmandu Wednesday.


PRINT DISCUSSION CHINESE SEND TO FRIEND


Foreign ministers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries began the 23rd Council of Ministers meeting in Kathmandu Wednesday.

Foreign ministers from all the seven South Asian countries attended the meeting. Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurated the meeting.

Anti-terrorism, economic cooperation, poverty alleviation, trafficking of women and children, drug smuggling and tourism promotion are among the agenda presented to the ministerial meeting by the SAARC Standing Committee meeting which concluded Tuesday.

"The agenda with poverty alleviation and anti-terrorism as the top priorities will be decided by the Council of Ministers during its two-day ministerial level Meeting," Pushkar Raj Rajbhandari, spokesman for the meeting and joint secretary of the Nepali Foreign Ministry, told reporters here Wednesday.

The foreign ministers will also decide the date for the next SAARC Council of Ministers meeting and recommend dates for the 12th SAARC summit to be held in Pakistan next year.

Established in 1985 to promote regional economic and social cooperation, SAARC groups seven South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Nepal holds the current chair of the SAARC.


Questions?Comments? Click here
    Advanced






China Welcomes Impending SAARC Summit

Kathmandu Summit Revitalizes SAARC Process

SAARC Information Ministers Pledge to Expand Media Cooperation





 


China's Exports Hit Record of US$56.2 Billion in July ( 36 Messages)

China's On-going Reform Calls for Better Economic Illumination ( 31 Messages)

Fourth Unmanned Spaceship Set to Roar by Yearend ( 46 Messages)

FM Spokesman Rejects Al-Qaida Contacts Allegation ( 48 Messages)

Commentary: Taiwan Independence No Easy Thing ( 57 Messages)



Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved