Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the 5th BIMSTEC Summit on 30th of this month. The Summit Meeting, which is being held in a virtual mode, will be hosted by Sri Lanka which is the current BIMSTEC chair. Ministry fo External Affairs in a statement said that to prepare for the Summit, meetings of BIMSTEC Senior Officials will take place on 28th March followed by meetings of the BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers on 29th of March, 2022.
The Covid pandemic-related challenges, and the uncertainties within the international system that all BIMSTEC members are facing, imparts greater urgency to the goal of taking BIMSTEC technical and economic cooperation to the next level.
The Ministry said that this is expected to be the main subject of deliberations by Leaders at the Summit.The Leaders are also expected to discuss the establishment of basic institutional structures and mechanisms of the group.
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organisation. Established in 1997, it comprises seven member states- India Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal.
