The pre-summit of the seven-nation BIMSTEC will be held here on August 1 and 2, ahead of the fourth summit scheduled later next month, according to a media report.
The fourth summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) will be held here on August 30-31
"The pre-summit scheduled for coming August 1 and 2 will be held at the people's level, not the government level," the Kathmandu Post reported.
BIMSTEC is a regional economic bloc comprising seven member states lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity.
The group, formed in 1997, consists of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand. Nepal is the current chair of BIMSTEC.
According to the report, the incumbent and retired senior officials of foreign ministries from all BIMSTEC member countries will be attending the pre-summit event to be held on the initiative of Institute for Strategic Socio-Economic Research.
As stated by acting chair of organising committee Prof Govinda Nepal, ambassadors of BIMSTEC countries, senior officials of external/foreign affairs ministries, intellectual community and people earning names in socio-economic sectors will be featured in the pre-summit, the newspaper said.
After the event, reports prepared by the organisations of the BIMSTEC countries working on socio-economic and poverty issues will be presented to Nepal in its capacity as the BIMSTEC chair.
Nepal government earlier this month said that sub-regional connectivity and poverty alleviation will be top of the agenda during the two-day BIMSTEC Summit.
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