PM Hasina to attend Bimstec summit in Bangkok in September
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All the heads of the governments of the member states will attend the summit
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Bangkok in the first week of September to attend the Bimstec Summit.
Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud disclosed that on Sunday while briefing the recently held Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) ministerial meeting in Delhi. He attended the meeting.
He said the foreign ministers reached a consensus that the summit would be held on September 4.
All the heads of the governments of the member states will attend the summit.
Bimstec is a regional organization that was established on 06 June 1997 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration.
Initially known as BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation), the organization is now known as Bimstec and comprises seven Member States with the admission of Myanmar on 22 December 1997, and Bhutan and Nepal in February 2004.
Following a decision at the Third Bimstec Summit in 2014, the Bimstec Secretariat was established in Dhaka, in that same year, providing an institutionalized framework for deepening and enhancing cooperation.
“We will be the next chairman of Bimstec,” the foreign minister said.
“I will take charge as the new chair after the Bimstec summit. That's why this (ministerial) meeting was very important for us,” he said.