Saturday 21 July 2018

where will the 4th BIMSTEC Summit be held?

where will the 4th BIMSTEC Summit be held?

Options

1) Nepal

2) Bhutan

3) Myanmar

4) none of the above

answer

1) Nepal

Other details

4th BIMSTEC Summit will be held in Kathmandu from 30 to 31 August.

Nepal's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali has said that connectivity and poverty alleviation will be top priority of the summit.

the main focus of the summit will be to increase connectivity between the BIMSTEC nations including roads, airways and transmission lines.

 some concrete steps will be taken for poverty alleviation among the member countries.

The Bay of Bengal Initiatives for Multi-Sectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional economic bloc comprising seven member states lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity.

The group was formed in 1997 and it brings together Bangladesh, Bhutan India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand. Nepal is the current chair of BIMSTEC.

Secretariat: Dhaka, Bangladesh

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