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Download PDF The first Bimstec ministerial meeting on poverty alleviation scheduled to be held in Dhaka on January 9-10 has been postponed due to ‘unavoidable reasons’, said a press release.
The Bimstec (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) meeting would adopt a comprehensive poverty alleviation action plan in line with global Millennium Development Goals.
Senior officials from the seven member states were to hammer out agenda of the meeting on January 9 while ministers were to finalise and adopt the agenda on January 10.
The meeting, proposed by Dhaka, was approved at the 9th Bimstec ministerial meeting in New Delhi in 2006.
The postponement may delay the regional organisation’s efforts to include poverty alleviation in the main agenda of its summit due this year in New Delhi.
Bimstec was formed on June 6, 1997 in Bangkok and its member countries are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
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