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SAARC meet to focus on terrorism

COLOMBO: Terrorism and legal matters — including the implementation of the SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism and its Additional Protocol and the SAARC Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters —are high on the agenda of the SAARC Foreign Ministers’ conference scheduled to be held here on February 27 and 28.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa would address the 31st Session of the Council of Ministers on February 27 in his capacity as current Chair of SAARC.

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to be here on February 27 as head of the Indian delegation.

Besides cooperation on issues related to terrorism, the meetings would deliberate on implementation of the 15th SAARC Summit Declaration and decisions taken on economic and financial cooperation.

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