{"id":67548,"date":"2020-10-27T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=67548"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:22:23","slug":"bimstec-bay-of-bengal-initiative-for-multi-sectoral-technical-and-economic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bimstec-bay-of-bengal-initiative-for-multi-sectoral-technical-and-economic-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC):<\/em> <\/strong>It is a regional organization founded in 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Aim:<\/em> <\/strong>To create an enabling environment for economic development; accelerate social progress and promote collaboration on matters of common interest in the region.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Members:<\/em><\/strong> It comprises seven Member States: five deriving from South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and two from Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and Thailand.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Headquarters:<\/em> <\/strong>Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>First Summit:<\/em> <\/strong>The First Summit Meeting of the Heads of the BIMSTEC Countries was held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004.<\/li>\n<li>The Fourth Summit was held in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC): It is a regional organization founded in 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration. Aim: To create an enabling environment for economic development; accelerate social progress and promote collaboration on matters of common interest in the region. Members: It comprises seven Member States: five deriving from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bimstec-bay-of-bengal-initiative-for-multi-sectoral-technical-and-economic-cooperation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1236],"tags":[1420],"class_list":["post-67548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-organisations","tag-ir_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703563310},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}