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The grouping, a work in progress, has several obstacles to overcome
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The grouping, a work in progress, has several obstacles to overcome
The foreign ministers of BIMSTEC (the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) met virtually on April 1. That they made time to hold their 17th meeting is good news. They advanced the agenda, which had been arrested by the pandemic, since the last ministerial meeting held in August 2018. Their major task was to pave the way for the next summit, the grouping’s fifth, due to be held in Sri Lanka in the “next few months”.
Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Momen took part in the Special Session of the BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM)
Dhaka, Apr 1(UNI) Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen took part in the Special Session of the BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) virtually held on Thursday in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
He led a four member Bangladesh delegation composed of Additional Foreign Secretary Md Shamsul Haque (SAARC & BIMSTEC) and other officers. The Foreign Secretaries and Senior Officials of all the seven BIMSTEC Member States joined the meeting.
Bangladesh facilitated and supported the endorsement of a series of vital documents at the Special Session of the BIMSTEC Senior Official’s Meeting chaired by Admiral Prof Jayanath Colombage, Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka.
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The latest resurgence of COVID-19 gives the year 2021 a tepid start. Speaking of the activity calendar of BIMSTEC, leaders and diplomatic officials might wonder how the major meeting in Bangkok this year will be conducted considering the travel restrictions brought about by the pandemic.
2021 is a very important year for Thailand, which will succeed Sri Lanka as chairman of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) for 2021. Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has planned in advance to make the event high profile as it is to mark the 24
th anniversary of BIMSTEC, which indeed was conceived in Bangkok on 6 June 1997.
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