{"id":4050,"date":"2023-03-10T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:49:27","slug":"bimstec-ministerial-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bimstec-ministerial-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>During the meeting, the Ministers approved several documents including rules of Procedure for Core BIMSTEC Mechanisms, <strong>Sectoral BIMSTEC Mechanisms<\/strong> and BIMSTEC\u2019s External Relations for submission to the 6th BIMSTEC Summit.<\/li>\n<li>The meeting also approved the draft Host Country Agreement between India and the BIMSTEC Secretariat for <strong>establishing BIMSTEC Centre for Weather and Climate in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Meeting also approved the <strong>Terms of Reference for an Eminent Person\u2019s Group<\/strong> on the Future Directions of BIMSTEC.<\/li>\n<li>The Terms of Reference were finalized under the special scheme for institution building.<\/li>\n<li>Besides <strong>BIMSTEC Bangkok Vision 2030<\/strong> was also approved and will be launched at the 6th BIMSTEC Summit.<\/li>\n<li>The Meeting also gave its nod to the Administrative and Disciplinary Rules of the Secretariat and amended Financial Rules and Regulations of the BIMSTEC Secretariat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about BIMSTEC<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a regional organization that was established on 06 June 1997 with the signing of the <strong>Bangkok Declaration.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Member countries:<\/strong> Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Chairmanship of BIMSTEC rotates according to the alphabetical order<\/strong> of the English names of the Member States.<\/li>\n<li>During the Third BIMSTEC Summit, the <strong>Secretariat <\/strong>was established in <strong>Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the aim of the BIMSTEC organisation?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The aim of the BIMSTEC organisationto create an enabling environment for rapid economic development; accelerate social progress; and promote collaboration on matters of common interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2023\/03\/09\/union-minister-rajkumar-ranjan-singh-participates-in-19th-bimstec-ministerial-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Union Minister Rajkumar Ranjan Singh participates in the 19th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIMSTEC is a regional organization established on 6 June 1997 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}