India News | BIMSTEC Meet on Climate Change, Food Security Underway in Kolkata
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The BIMSTEC ministerial conference, which will deal with issues such as climate change and food security, is underway in Kolkata on Saturday.
Kolkata, Mar 25 (PTI) The BIMSTEC ministerial conference, which will deal with issues such as climate change and food security, is underway in Kolkata on Saturday.
Experts from various fields will discuss the issues concerning the seven members of the 'Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation' (BIMSTEC).
The two-day event will be attended, among others, by West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose and Minister of State for External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh.
"This conference has been designed to address all persisting issues and challenges in BIMSTEC with a country-wise representation and perspective,†Arindam Mukherjee, the director of the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, one of the organisers of the event, has said.
The seven members of the BIMSTEC are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. 2503 1131
(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)