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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 05.05 GMT |
SAARC officials meet in Kandy
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The SAARC Programming Committee comprising
of senior officials of the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs of SAARC Member States will
hold its first meeting since the 15th SAARC
Summit, in Kandy, today.
The two day meeting at Hotel Earl's Regency
in Kandy which will be attended by Sheel
Kant Sharma, Secretary General of SAARC,
senior officials of all eight SAARC Member
States, Directors of SAARC Regional Centres
and the SAARC Secretariat is an important
event in the SAARC Calendar. This will be
the first SAARC Charter body meeting since
Sri Lanka assumed the Chair of the regional
organisation in August this year. The
Programming Committee meeting will be
chaired on behalf of Sri Lanka, by
Additional Secretary of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Prasad Kariyawasam.
Deliberations at the Meeting will include
implementation of decisions taken by the
Heads of State and Government of SAARC at
the 15th Summit in Colombo, the SAARC Work
Plan/Calendar for the coming year, and a
range of other issues relating to SAARC
Technical Committees, Regional Centres and
Working Groups. Discussions will also
include measures for prioritization and
rationalization of the work of SAARC
Technical Committees, Working Groups and
Regional Centres and related
Inter-Governmental Meetings.
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