Trade and livelihood are the main issues

flags of 8 SAARC countries

The SAARC leaders meeting in the Maldives will focus on trade and livelihood issues facing the region, natural resources, and rebuilding the labour movement in the region. Many other major concerns and topics to be discussed include people’s movements, discrimination, oppression, intolerance, syncretism, demilitarisation and nuclear disarmament.  

A meeting between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan, the two nuclear armed rival neighbours has been finalised on the sidelines of the summit and will take place on 11 November 2011.

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Written by: Ibrahim Nazim

8 November 2011, Tuesday

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