On The Sidelines Of SAARC
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 10, 2011: Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has met with US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert Blake in the Addu city of the Maldives yesterday. Prime Minister Bhattarai is in the Maldives for participating in the 17th SAARC Summit, the state news agency RSS reports. Prime Minister Bhattarai briefed Mr. Blake on the ongoing peace process, constitution writing and the seven-point agreement the political parties reached recently in Nepal, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today quotes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed and First Lady Laila Ali received Prime Minister BHattarai at the Gan International Airport when Prime Minister Bhattarai arrived at the Addu City of the Maldives on Wednesday morning to participate in the 17th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit. A seven-gun salute was accorded to Prime Minister Bhattarai at the airport.