The first Bimstec ministerial meeting on poverty alleviation scheduled to be held in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Jan. 9-10 has been postponed due to "unavoidable reasons."
The Bimstec (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) meeting would adopt a comprehensive poverty alleviation action plan in line with global Millennium Development Goals, local newspaper The Daily Star reported Monday quoting a press release.
Senior officials from the seven member states were to hammer out agenda of the meeting on Jan. 9 while ministers were to finalize and adopt the agenda on Jan. 10.
The meeting, proposed by Dhaka, was approved at the 9th Bimstec ministerial meeting in New Delhi in 2006.
The postponement may delay the regional organization's efforts to include poverty alleviation in the main agenda of its summit due this year in New Delhi.
Bimstec was formed on June 6, 1997 in Bangkok and its member countries are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Source:Xinhua
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