PM to leave for SAARC Summit on Jan. 2

December 27, 2003
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Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa is leaving for Islamabad on Friday, leading a Nepali delegation to the 12th SAARC Summit in the Pakistani capital from January 4 to 6, a Foreign Ministry statement said.

Thapa will formally handover the chairmanship of the SAARC to Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Aafarulla Khan Jamali for the next tenure, the statement said.

PM Thapa is scheduled to address the Summit on January 4, 2004. Prior to this, the 24th session of the SAARC Council of Ministers will be held in Islamabad on January 2 and 3. Ambassador-at-large Dr. Bhekh Bahadur Thapa will lead the Nepali delegation to the session, the Rising Nepal said.

A two-day meeting of the 29th session of the SAARC Standing Committee, comprising Foreign Secretaries of the region on December 31 and January 1, 2004, will precede the meeting of the Council of Ministers, the daily said. nepalnews.com mr Dec 27