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Hope in South Asia: The First SAARC Summit |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Syed Serajul Islam |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,534 Words, 9,749 Characters |
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The recent conclusion of the first SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit held in Dhaka in early December 1985 has drawn the attention of millions of people both inside and outside South Asia - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - representing one billion people, signed the charter of the SAARC in which they acknowledged that "they were conscious of their individual and regional strengths, their potential as a huge market, their substantial human and natural resource and of the complementaries of their economies."
The five-page Dhaka Declaration acknowledged that the countries of South Asia are faced with the common challenges of poverty, underdevelopment, low-levels of production, unemployment, etc. the leaders pledged that ...
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... and greater stability in South Asia." SAARC has locked together the seven nations of South Asia into a united front, and now it is up to the determined efforts of the leaders to keep the key in their own hands. What is required most for its success is the will to work together. Above all, a successful SAARC could offer the people of South Asia constructive economic and peaceful politics. vbcrlf
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