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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia. Its member states are Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Maldives , Nepal , Pakistan , and Sri Lanka .
The second summit was held in November 17–18 Bangalore, India in 1986. The Heads of State or Government welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the SAARC Secretariat by the Council of Ministers and their decision to locate the Secretariat in Kathmandu and appoint Ambassador Abul Ahsan of Bangladesh as the first Secretary-General of south Asian ...
The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is a 2004 agreement that created a free-trade area of 1.6 billion people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the vision of increasing economic cooperation and integration.
SAARC endorsed SAGQ in 1997. The initial four member countries then requested ADB assistance to promote economic cooperation in the subregion, leading to the creation of the SASEC Program in 2001. Maldives and Sri Lanka were welcomed as new member countries in May 2014. Myanmar became the seventh member of SASEC in February 2017. [7]
[18] [19] Modi said, "There is a lot of poverty in the SAARC nations and we need scientific solutions for this". [7] In his address to the Sri Lankan Parliament in March 2015, Narendra Modi said "Sri Lanka will take full benefit of India's satellite for the SAARC Region. This should be in Space by December 2016".
Subsequently, the SAARC leaders signed the Charter of the SAARC Development Fund on August 3, 2008, during the Fifteenth SAARC Summit held in Colombo from August 2-3, 2008. In line with this development, a permanent Secretariat for the SDF was inaugurated in Thimphu on April 28, 2010, coinciding with the Sixteenth SAARC Summit. [4] [8]
Pages in category "Member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an association aiming to promote friendly relations among regional countries from South Asia. It was established in Dhaka on 8 December 1985 and currently is made up of 8 states: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.