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SAARC has generated new hopes: Khaleda
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia said on Friday SAARC has generated new hopes and aspirations among one billion people of South Asia, reports BSS.
She said the association has stimulated a new awareness among the countries of the re gfon and the bond of mutual cooperation is gradually grow tng stronger and areas of collaboration arc expanding.
Addressing the inaugural session of the 6th South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) at a hotel in Dhaka, the Prime Minister said common aim of development and welfare of the people of this region was being reflected in new and diverse areas of cooperation because of SAARC.
Commerce Minister M K Anwar. SAFA President Habibur Rahman. SAFA Vice
President K M Agarwal and Chairman of the 6th SAFA conference committee Jamaluddtn Ahmed also spoke on the occasion.
The main theme of the conference this year is "economic development and accountability."
The Prime Minister said democracy and accountability are the pre requisites for economic development. "Without active participation of the people and without proven arrangement for accountability at every step, meaningful, welfare oriented and pro-people development is no way possible," she said.
She termed the present decade as the decade of democracy and accountability and of Irresistible stride towards progress and prosperity.
Begum Zia said the sovereign national parliament and the free press arc the symbols of accountability and transparency of the govern ment.
She expressed her belief that the combined Intellect, wisdom, power and efforts of the country's ten million people would usher In a new era for the nation.
The Prime Minister expressed her happiness that the dreums of shahccd President Zta who had first envisioned SAARC has come true. She also expressed her pleasure that the concept of mutual cooperation and exchange of views in SAARC had trickled down to different professional bodies like the SAFA.
The Prime Minister di reeled the Commerce Ministry to lake necessary measures so that the revised Company Act of 1913 could be discussed In the next session of parliament.
The two-day conference, which has been jointly sponsored by Institute of Cost and Management Accountants and Institute of Cost Accountants, is being participated by 400 representatives from India. Sri Lanka. Pakistan. Nepal and Bangladesh.