SAARC

SAARC--south Asian association for regional corporation (8)

ESTABLISHED ON : DEC 8 1985


HEADQUARTERS: KHATMENDU,NEPAL

ORIGINAL members

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan

• Maldives
• Nepal

• India

• Pakistan

• Sri Lanka
• Afghanistan(april 2007)

CHAIRMAN : Mahindra rajapaksha

SECRETARY GENRAL:sheel kant sharma

The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987 and was inaugurated by Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal.

The SAARC Secretariat and Member States observe 8 December as the SAARC Charter Day1

List of SAARC summits

1st Dhaka December 7–8, 1985 2nd Bangalore November 16–17, 1986 3rd Kathmandu November 2–4, 1987 4th Islamabad December 29–31, 1988 5th Malé November 21–23, 1990 6th Colombo December 21, 1991 7th Dhaka April 10–11, 1993 8th New Delhi May 2–4, 1995 9th Malé May 12–14, 1997

10th Colombo July 29–31, 1998 11th Kathmandu January 4–6, 2002 12th Islamabad January 2–6, 2004 13th Dhaka November 12–13, 2005 14th New Delhi April 3–4, 2007 15th Colombo August 1–3, 2008 16th Thimphu April 28–29, 2010 17th Maldives - Malé 2011

The Agreement on SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA)^[28] was signed on 11 April 1993 and entered into force on 7 December 1995, with the desire of the Member States of SAARC (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives) to promote and sustain mutual trade and economic cooperation within the SAARC region through the exchange of concessions.

South Asian University is a proposed university set up by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).^[1] It aims at admitting students in 2010, when the it will use a temporary campus at Akbar Bhawan, India.^[2] Its permanent campus will be at Maidan Garhi in South Delhi, India,^[3] next to Indira Gandhi National Open University

Secretaries General

Abul Ahsan	January 16, 1987 to 15 October 1989
Kant Kishore Bhargava	October 17, 1989 to December 31, 1991
Ibrahim Hussain Zaki	January 1, 1992 to December 31, 1993
Yadav Kant Silwal	January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1995
Naeem U. Hasan	January 1, 1996 to December 31, 1998
Nihal Rodrigo	January 1, 1999 to January 10, 2002
Q.A.M.A. Rahim	January 11, 2002 to February 28, 2005
Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji	March 1, 2005 to February 29, 2008
Sheel Kant Sharma	March 1, 2008 to present

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