Kathmandu,
June 5: The government has refuted the media reports suggesting that Nepal
could not organize the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
Technical and Economic Cooperation) Conference in the upcoming Fiscal Year.
Issuing
a press statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its
serious concerns to the media reports which hinted that the country was not
capable of organizing the conference of the regional body.
“Nepal
government has included the BIMSTEC conference in its Policies and Programmes
for the Fiscal Year 2016/17. The government is committed to and capable of
organizing the conference in time. The date of the conference will be announced
at the earliest after consultation with the member countries,” read the
statement.
The
third Summit of the BIMSTEC in Ney Pi Tah in 2014 had passed the chairmanship
of the regional body to Nepal.
The country is organizing the fourth summit of
the BIMSTEC in the capacity of its chair.
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