DHAKA: BIMSTEC leaders are set to adopt a declaration and BIMSTEC Vision 2030 at the upcoming Summit to be held in the first week of April in Bangkok, the organization’s Secretary General said on Friday.
“The Summit, which is just 10 days away, will be an important Summit. It’s the first in-person Summit after the Kathmandu Summit in 2018. The Summit in Colombo was virtual Summit. Apart from adopting a declaration in the Summit, the leaders are also going to adapt BIMSTEC vision 2030 that will pave the roadmap and road for future cooperation among the BIMSTEC member states”, Indra Mani Pandey, Secretary General of BIMSTEC, said in an exclusive interview with ANI.
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) brings together seven countries of South and Southeast Asia for multi-faceted cooperation.
“Our charter came into force last year in May. Now our leaders are going to adapt what we call rules of procedures for our organization. So that will be very important decisions by our leaders. Similarly, we had an eminent person group last year, and they have submitted their reports to the foreign ministers. Now our leaders are going to adapt that report. Here I would like to mention that we have already started implementing that report even before our leaders have adopted it”, he said.
The Secretary-General said that there would be a signing ceremony for some memorandums of understanding between BIMSTEC and its partners.