SAARC leaders to become listed on video conference on Sunday to fight coronavirus
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries' leaders are set to become listed on Indian Primary Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing on Sunday afternoon to choose a joint technique to fight coronavirus in South Asia.
The SAARC leaders will carry talks among themselves at about 5:30pm Bangladesh time, sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Daily Observer Online on Saturday afternoon.
Indian Primary Minister Narendra Modi will join from New Delhi, while Bangladesh Primary Minister from Dhaka, Pakistan Primary Minister's Wellness Adviser Zafar Mirza from Islamabad, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from Colombo, Nepal's Primary Minister KP Sharma Oli from Kathmandu, Bhutan's Prime Minister Lotay Tshering from Thimpu and Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih from Male are likely to join video-conferencing.
Leaders of most seven associates of the SAARC endorsed the proposal made by Modi on Friday. Pakistan, the last member talk about to agree, has explained its de facto well being minister will become a member of the video conference.
While the top leaders of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives and Sri Lanka decided to Modi’s suggestion for forging a joint strategy on COVID-19 hours after he managed to get, Pakistan announced shortly after midnight on Friday that Zafar Mirza, the particular adviser on health to Prime Minister Imran Khan, would join the video conference.
The SAARC has been generally inactive since a summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad in 2016 was called off after an attack on an army camp at Uri in Kashmir. Since that time, India has considered solution blocs such as for example BIMSTEC to bolster regional cooperation.
Your choice was also conveyed to India through diplomatic channels, said the persons cited above, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They stated the training video conference is likely to be held by Sunday afternoon. Logistics for the exercise and the agenda for discussions had been being finalised, they said.
