The Foreign Secretaries of the SAARC member countries today held a meeting to fine tune the draft agreement due to be signed at the SAARC summit on Wednesday. Briefing newsmen in Thimphu this afternoon, Bhutan’s Foreign Secretary Daw Penjo who chaired the meeting said the meeting planned 95 activities throughout the year, of which eleven will be held in Bhutan. He said two agreements on Trade in Services and Environment will be signed at the summit adding that the SAARC Development Fund will be operationalized and the SAARC Food Bank doubled at the summit.The Bhutanese Foreign Secretary said the two highlights of the SAARC summit will be the silver jubilee Thimphu declaration and the statement on climate change. AIR Correspondent covering the SAARC summit reports that 400 delegates from SAARC countries and 50 from nine observer countries are attending the summit with about 300 journalists from SAARC and other countries covering the summit meeting held for the first time in Bhutan. The Prime Minister of Bhutan Lyonchen Jigmey Y. Thinley today met the Foreign Ministers of Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives and held discussions on bilateral issues.
News On AIR | April 26, 2010 8:20 PM
Trade in Services, Environment to be sign at SAARC summit