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Secretary-General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is head of a SAARC Secretariat, which is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal. [1] SAARC is an economic and geopolitical union between the eight South Asian member nations , Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. [ 2 ]
The issue was further exasperated as it was Afghanistan's turn to select a Secretary General for SAARC in 2023. All other members decided to skip Afghanistan and award the selection to Bangladesh, with Nepali foreign secretary, Bharat Raj Paudyal, stating that "When the term of the Bangladeshi secretary general ends, if the problems in ...
Md. Golam Sarwar is a Bangladesh diplomat and secretary general of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. [1] He is the former high commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia. [ 2 ] He is the former ambassador of Bangladesh to Oman.
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 ...
Esala Ruwan Weerakoon is a Sri Lankan diplomat who was the SAARC Secretary General, in office since March 2020 to October 2023. [1] [2] He served as permanent secretary to the Ministry of Tourism Development and permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India and ambassador to Norway.
On 1 March 2017, he replaced Arjun Bahadur Thapa and assumed the office of SAARC Secretary General. [2] Before becoming SAARC Secretary General, he was special secretary at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [4] He had served as the ambassador to Tajikistan from 2011 to 2014 and permanent representative of Pakistan to the United Nations. [1]
Secretary-general: Meg Taylor: Papua New Guinea: 2014-2021 [101] Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Secretary-general: Rashid Alimov: Tajikistan: 2016-2018 [102] South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Secretary-general: Arjun Bahadur Thapa: Nepal: 2014-2017 [103] Amjad Hussain B. Sial: Pakistan: 2017-2020 [citation needed]
Dhiyana Saeed was the candidate provided by the Maldives, in nomination for the post of the 10th Secretary-General of SAARC. On 10 February 2011, she was appointed to the post by the Thirty-third Session of the SAARC Council of Ministers held in Thimphu, Bhutan. [4] She assumed office in Kathmandu on 1 March 2011. [2]