Honourbale Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi is going to attend the important BIMSTEC Summit On March 30. The meeting will strengthen the economic, trade and social relationship of India with other south eastern countries. BIMSTEC is a regional organisation that was established on June 6, 1997, with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration.
“The summit meeting, which is being held in virtual mode, will be hosted by Sri Lanka, the current BIMSTEC chair,” the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday.
The Covid pandemic related challenges, and the uncertainties within the international system that all BIMSTEC members are facing, imparts greater urgency to the goal of taking BIMSTEC technical and economic cooperation to the next level. This is expected to be the main subject of deliberations by leaders at the summit.
The leaders are also expected to discuss the establishment of basic institutional structures and mechanisms of the group. The member countries of BIMSTEC are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
