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SAARC programme body meets today

Star Report
Establishment of a couple of regional institutions, budget for the SAARC Secretariat for 1993, preparation of a calendar of activities under the IPA and administrative matters will be the main agenda of today's formal meeting of the SAARC Programme Committee.
The meeting begins at 9 in the morning at the Sheraton Hptel. The Committee, composed of senior bureaucrats, bolds a second forma] session in the afternoon.
Delegates from five coun-trjes arrived yesterday at-
tend the meeting preceding that of the Standing Committee formed by Foreign Secretaries.
The Indian delegation Is scheduled to come early this morning, half-an-hour before the formal session begins. Delegates from the Maldives reached Dhaka late last night
Officials of Bhutan, Nepal, Shri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh had Informal consultations in the evening yesterday to prepare for today's meeting.
December 12-13.
"It Is basically preparatory in nature," said a Foreign Ministry official, speaking on the meeting of the Programme Committee that sends its recommendations to the Standing Committee.
The official, who spoke on , condition of anonymity, said that the Committee would deliberate on the proposed SAARC documentation Centre and the SAARC Meteorology Research Centre.
The delegates will also review the activities of the existing institutions like the SAARC Audio Visual Exchange (SAVE) Programme and other programmes.
The meeting is to prepare the calendar of activities in seven of 13 areas of cooperation under the Integrated Programme of Action (1PA). The other six areas were disposed of by the Committee and
later endorsed by the Foreign Ministers tn their July meet in Colombo.
The Programme Committee Is expected to approve a bud; get almost similar to the one of the current year.
In 1992. an amount of 700,000 US dollars was allocated for the Kathmandu-based SAARC Secretariat.
Of the total amount. India contributed the highest 161,OOP US dollars, followed by Pakistan's 120,000 US dollars.
Bangladesh, Shri Lanka and Nepal gave 57,000 US dollars each. Two tiny states, Bhutan and the Maldives, spent 25.000 US dollars each.
.The Bangladesh delegation to the meeting includes the Director General in charge of the South Agfa Desk at the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Syed Moazzem AH. Director General In charge of the Eco-
nomic Affairs Desk Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury. Director of the Meteorology Department liamlduzzaman Khan, two Directors at the Foreign Ministry's SAARC Desk and a Deputy Secretary from the Ministry of Finance.
Director General of the SAARC Desk QAMA Rahim will lead the Dhaka team. Rahim will preside over the meeting and take over as the next chairman of the SAARC Programme Committee.
Meanwhile, Bhutanese Foreign Secretary Scwan Ringin arrived yesterday to attend tomorrow's Standing Committee meeting. The other Foreign Secretaries are scheduled to come today.
The Foreign Minister of Bhutan, Dawa Tsering, is expected to come today. The Council of Ministers begins its two-day meeting Thursday. The other Foreign Ministers are to come the day before.