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Press briefing of Cabinet Decision taken on 2014-02-20
Memorandum of Association (MoA) on the Establishment of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)

- this is a regional inter-governmental grouping which was established in 1997 and it currently comprises of 07 Member States from South Asia and South-East Asia namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. It has been decided to establish the Permanent Secretariat of BIMSTEC in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The proposal made by Hon. (Prof.) G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, to sign the MoA on the establishment of the Secretariat, was approved by the Cabinet.