President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in a message of greetings for the 24th anniversary of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), reiterated that Sri Lanka will remain committed to all of the organization’s initiatives. As the current Chair of BIMSTEC, Sri Lanka convened eight core BIMSTEC meetings including the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting during which Member States collectively finalized the BIMSTEC Charter. Rationalization of sectors and sub sectors of BIMSTEC, MoU on mutual cooperation between diplomatic academies/training institutions of BIMSTEC member states, with a view to adopt at the 5th BIMSTEC Summit. I reassure that Sri Lanka would remain committed to all BIMSTEC initiatives as we did in the past. Let all Member States of BIMSTEC harmoniously work towards achieving shared prosperity and peace for our peoples.

Source: The Nation June 06, 2021 18:00 UTC