Islamabad SAARC Summit A productive one

January 21, 2004
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-Ambassador Rahim

Kathmandu: SAARC Secretary General Q.A.M.A Rahim has said that the Islamabad SAARC Summit was a landmark in truest sense of the term as such and would go a long way in bringing the regional countries further closer.

“It was a very productive Summit indeed”, said Ambassador Rahim to a press gathering at the premises of the SAARC Secretariat last week.

He lauded the visionary role played by the leaders of South Asia in having approved the SAARC Social Charter; the agreement on South Asian Free Trade, SAFTA, and the adoption of the additional protocol to the SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism.

He, however, admitted that with so many things emerging out of SAARC Summits, tackling of the agreed issues would be difficult but then yet it had to be efficiently tackled even if the governments have had to increase human resources in their respective countries.

“It was the Summit that allowed both India and Pakistan to come closer”, Rahim remarked.

“South Asia would now see an expanded cooperation in between and among the member states”, concluded Ambassador Rahim.