BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers' meeting was held in New Delhi on 11 July. This meeting lasted for two days. Foreign Ministers of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan are participating in it. BIMSTEC is hosted by External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar.
In this meeting, talks were held on security, telecommunications, trade and mutual cooperation.
The full name of BIMSTEC is Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation.
It is a regional organization of countries adjoining the Bay of Bengal.
It includes seven countries and Pakistan is kept out of it.
It was formed in 1997 under the Bangkok Declaration.
Initially it had four countries and it was called BIST-EC i.e. Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation Organization.
After the inclusion of Myanmar on 22 December 1997, it was named BIMST-EC.
In 2004, Bhutan and Nepal were included in it and its name became BIMSTEC.
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