BIMSTEC ministerial meeting in Dhaka July 9

Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 17 (BSS)- The Bay of Bengal Initiative for
Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC)
ministerial meeting on poverty alleviation will be held here on
July 9.

Senior officials of the member countries will meet on July 8
to prepare the ground work for the meeting, official sources said
today.

The issues which are expected to figure prominently at the
meeting include food security, environment and climate change.

The senior officials of member countries are also expected to
discuss the mechanism for exchange of information on best
practices to tackle poverty, achieve millennium development goals
(MDGs) and explore ways and means to develop project based
collaboration among the member countries, the sources said.

BIMSTEC members are Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.