Foreign Minister leads Bhutanese delegation to SAARC meeting

The 35^th session of the SAARC Council of Ministers meeting is being held in Male, the capital of the Maldives. The four-day meeting began today.

The Foreign Minister, Rinzin Dorje, is leading the Bhutanese delegation comprising senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Lyonpo Rinzin Dorje will discuss issues related to trade and finance, poverty alleviation and rationalisation of SAARC.

The conclave will talk about the 18^th SAARC summit to be held in  Kathmandu, sometime in 2014. The meeting will also endorse the appointment of the next SAARC Secretary General, Arun Bahadur Thapa from Nepal.