Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Uniting south asian countries

New Delhi have hosted to representatives of eight South Asian countries yesterday who were there to attend the 14th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. SAARC is consist of 8 countries. They are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in SAARC. SAARC was established in 1985 with 7 country and the Afghanistan had joined it last year.

The two-day summit is being attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz,newly appointed Nepalese Prime Minister G P Koirala, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse. Other representatives are Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Bangladesh Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed and Bhutan Prime Minister Khandu Wangchuk. They summit will be ended today. Iran have been named as a new observer of SAARC this year.

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