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Nepal to host 18th Saarc Summit

Diplomatic Correspondent
Nepal has officially proposed to host the 18th Saarc Summit in November this year in Kathmandu.
The country made the proposal during the 35th meeting of the Saarc Council of Foreign Ministers held in the Maldives yesterday.
This is the third time that Nepal will be hosting the South Asian Association for Regional
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Cooperation (Saarc) summit.
"During the meeting, the council welcomed the offer of Nepal to host the summit. Nepal also proposed to host the preceding meetings in the month of November," according to a message received from Maldives.
The meeting also appointed Arjun Bahadur Thapa, former foreign secretary of Nepal, as the next secretary general of Saarc.
Arjun will be the 12th secretary general of Saarc for a period of three yearscommencing from March 1,2014.
The incumbent Secretary General from Maldives, Ahmed Saleem, is retiring at the end of this month after completion of his tenure.
Nepal should have hosted the summit much earlier but due to political instability, lack of logistic preparation and other regional reasons, it got delayed.
The 17th summit was held in the Maldives in 2011 and Nepal is holding the next after a three-year hiatus.
President of the Maldives Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom inaugurated the meeting, where State Minister for
Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam led the Bangladesh delegation.
Shahriar in his speech at the meeting reiterated Bangladesh's commitment to move the Saarc process forward for the benefit of peoples in the region.
He also undeiscored the key areas of cooperation such as trade, connectivity, energy, transport and poverty alleviation.
The meeting of the foreign ministers took decisions to further enhance regional cooperation under Saarc, said a foreign ministry press release.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Shahriar held talks with Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Foreign Minister of the Maldives Dunya Maumoon and External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka ProfGL Peiris.
During his meeting with Khurshid, Shahriar raised a number of issues, including the hurdles in obtaining Indian visa, ratification of Land Boundary Agreement, Teesta watersharing deal and border.
Healso requested the Indian minister to expedite the issue of import of 100