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SHAH NIDHI S.

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SAARC

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SAARC Established on 8th December 1985dedicated to economic, technological, social and

cultural development. The 11 stated areas of cooperation are agriculture;

education, culture, and sports; health, population,and child welfare; the environment and

meteorology; rural development ; tourism;transport; science and technology;communications.

Headquarters - Kathmandu, Nepal

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Promoting the welfare of the people of South Asiaand to improve their quality of life.

Accelerating economic growth, social progress andcultural development in the region and to provide allindividuals the opportunity to live in dignity and to

realize their full potential.

Promoting and strengthen collective self-relianceamong the countries of South Asia.

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Contributing to mutual trust, understanding andappreciation of one another's problems.

Promoting active collaboration and mutualassistance in the economic, social, cultural,technical and scientific fields.

Strengthening cooperation with other developing

countries;

Strengthening cooperation among themselves ininternational forums on matters of commoninterest .

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Abul Ahsan January 16, 1987 to 15 October 1989 Kant Kishore Bhargava October 17, 1989 to December

31, 1991 Ibrahim Hussain Zaki January 1, 1992 to December 31,

1993 Yadav Kant Silwal January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1995 Naeem U. Hasan January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1998 Nihal Rodrigo January 1, 1999 to January 10, 2002 Q.A.M.A. Rahim January 11, 2002 to February 28, 2005 Sheel Kant Sharma March 1, 2008 to February 28, 2011 Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed March 1, 2011 to present

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Bangladesh

Bhutan

India The Maldives

Nepal

Pakistan

Sri Lanka.

Afghanistan joined later on 3rd April, 2007

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The People's Republic ofChina has shown its

interest in joining SAARC.

Indonesia intends to become an observer Russia intends to become an observer

Myanmar has expressed an interest in joiningas a full member

Iran asked to join the SAARC as an observer.

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The 14th SAARC summit took place in New

Delhi (India) during the 2nd and 4th of April,

2007. Afghanistan inducted as 8th member Focus

on peace, prosperity The year 2007 wasdeclared as the year of Green South Asia.

Member countries welcomed the ratificationof SAFTA.

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The 15th SAARC summit took place in

Colombo (Sri Lanka) during the 1st and 3rd of

August, 2008. Summit concluded has taken far-reaching

decisions on key issues affecting the regionsuch as terrorism, food and fuel security and

trade, with discussions that had a strongfocus, on economic and commercial

cooperation.

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The 16th summit of SAARC was held in

Thimpu, Bhutan between 28-29 April 2010

SAARC leaders signed a SAARC Conventionon Cooperation on Environment to tackle the

problem of climate change.

The SAARC nations also pledged to plant 10

million trees.

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The 17th SAARC Summit will be held in

Maldives' capital Male next year.

And main agenda will be Climate Risks in the

Region.

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Signed on 11th April 1993 in Dhaka

Framework for Tariff concessions

Promoting trade & economic cooperation India, Pakistan& Sri Lanka are non-least

developed countries

Recognition of the special needs of the Least

Developed States and agreement on concretepreferential measures in their favour

SAPTA covering over 5000 commodities.

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The Agreement on the South Asian Free Trade Area isan agreement reached at the 12th SAARC summit atIslamabad.

The seven foreign ministers of the region signed aframework agreement on SAFTA with zero customsduty on the trade of practically all products in the

region by end 2016.

The least developed nations in South Asia consistingof Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Maldives have anadditional three years to reduce tariffs to zero.

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