18th SAARC Summit: Foreign ministers meeting begins

Kathmandu, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The foreign and external affairs ministers of the SAARC nations are attending the 36th meeting of the SAARC Council of Ministers in Kathmandu on Tuesday.

Indian External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, is also likely to hold discussions with her Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz, reports Zeenews.
Sushma had arrived in Kathmandu yesterday to attend the 18th SAARC Summit.

The meeting, hosted by the Nepalese Foreign Minister, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, will be attended by the ministers of all SAARC nations – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

A four-member Afghani delegation led by the Foreign Minister and 10-member delegation led by Bangladeshi Foreign Minister will also be present.

Similarly, Bhutan delegation will have four members, Indian and Sri Lankan nine members each, Pakistan seven members and Nepal will have have 17 members.