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SAARC Ministerial Meetings On Poverty Alleviation
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 3, 2013: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is holding two-ministerial-level meetings on the poverty alleviation in Kathmandu starting tomorrow, according to the news in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
Ministers and high-level authorities of the SAARC countries holding portfolios of poverty alleviation will attend the meetings. SAARC countries have designated the decade starting in 2006 and ending in 2015 as the poverty alleviation decade.
The meetings to be held tomorrow and the day after are for progress reviews of the work done so far on the poverty alleviation, and to formulate additional programs on the poverty alleviation, according to the ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
SAARC member countries are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan has recently joined the SAARC. The Secretariat of SAARC is in Kathmandu, Nepal. Members of the SAARC hold the office of the chief of the secretariat in rotation following the alphabetical order.
