Nepal will host an informal summit of the leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on the sidelines of the coming Sagarmatha Sambaad. To revive the forum, which has been unable to meet formally during the last four years because of the negative India-Pakistan relations. The SAARC summit could not be held in Islamabad in 2016 after India faced terror strikes blamed on elements in Pakistan. Kathmandu had invited all SAARC heads of government for Sagarmatha Sambaad, the first edition of a multi-stakeholder dialogue, to be held from April 2 to 4 and argued that an alternative to the formal summit model could be explored.
“Environmental Sustainability and Economic Development” Summit held in Delhi
Summit on “Environmental Sustainability and Economic Development”was held in Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change addressed the summit with the concerns about the depleting ozone layerand the emission of Cfcs and Hfcs.
