10.21 am: Sheikh Hasina SAARC:Agricultural growth has helped eradicate abject hunger and poverty.Bangladesh target being middle income country by 2021
10.17 am: Stern comments made by President Rajapaksa against what he calls 'external threats' to member states over human rights concerns
10.15 am: Human rights is a moral issue, but used as a political tool. Interventions are planned in the guise of HR concerns, says Mr. Rajapaksa
.@ashrafghani : Afghanistan will not allow our territory to be used for terrorism, will not allow any proxy war to be waged on our territory
- Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) November 26, 2014
. @ashrafghani at #SAARC: Every problem is not a nail that must be hit with a hammer. Need dialogue in south asia.
- Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) November 26, 2014
Diplomats were scrambling till late on Tuesday night, ahead of the plenary session of SAARC leaders, as serious differences emerged over the agreements to be adopted at the conclusion of the summit. Read
10.10 am: Rajapaksa at SAARC:Must pass agreement on energy cooperation,focus on health and sanitation. Compliments Modi on SAARC satellite idea
10 am: Nawaz Sharif at SAARC : Need a dispute free Asia. Instead of fighting each other, we should fight disease, poverty, illiteracy
Read: A case for SAARC reforms by Subramanian Swamy
With all eyes on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's take on the future of South Asia, the 18th SAARC Summit commenced on Wednesday morning.
Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit. As chair of SAARC, Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul opened the summit and handed over the responsibility of the chair of the regional bloc to Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala.
This is the third time Nepal is organising the summit - first in 1987 and then again in 2002.
Ahead of the summit, three meetings at foreign ministers', foreign secretaries' and joint secretaries' levels decided to scrap three SAARC regional centres and merge four others into one
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