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India
calls for ‘future-oriented’ SAARC summit declaration
Sunday, April 25, 2010 07:59:27 PM ,
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Thimphu:
Ahead of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
summit in Bhutan next week, foreign secretaries of the regional
grouping’s eight member-states met Sunday with India pitching for a
“visionary and future-oriented” summit declaration that spurs
greater intra-regional cooperation.
“Each of the areas of cooperation under SAARC has a direct bearing
on the lives and livelihoods of the people of our region. Our
leaders have correctly identified the focus of SAARC as being
development oriented,” Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said at the
standing committee meeting of SAARC.
“In this 25th year of SAARC, we can take satisfaction from the fact
that SAARC has evolved into a service provider for the economic and
development needs of the people of the region,” she said.
Rao stressed that it was “an opportunity to introspect on the
experience of the last 25 years and the course we need to chart in
the future not only to maintain, but to accelerate, the momentum
SAARC has achieved in the recent past.”
She lauded Bhutan, the chair and host of the 16th SAARC summit, for
taking the lead to put climate change at the centre of the SAARC
agenda. “Bhutan has led the way among all of us in enshrining
respect and sensitivity for environmental concerns and the
preservation of our precious environmental space,” Rao said.
“Let us derive impetus from this to work towards a Summit
Declaration that is focused, incisive, visionary, and
future-oriented as a lasting outcome of our summit,” she said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will join other leaders of South Asian
countries in Thimphu April 28, the first time Bhutan is hosting a
summit of SAARC countries that account for nearly one-fourth of the
world’s humanity.
The April-29 summit is expected to culminate in a joint declaration
entitled “Towards a Green and Happy South Asia” and will see the
signing of two pacts on environment and trade in services. A
separate Ministerial Declaration on Climate Change will also be
issued at the end of the summit.
At the summit, India will focus on improving regional connectivity
through the development of new trade, transport and
telecommunication links, Rao said days ahead of the summit.
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