Thailand to host Bimstec meetings

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PUBLISHED: 7 Feb 2025 at 12: 58

Thailand will host the Bimstec summit and meetings in April this year, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Bimstec stands for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation. (Photo: Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
The Foreign Affairs Ministry predicts that Thailand will host the Bimstec conference and conferences in April of this year. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation is known as BIMstec. ( Photo: Arnun Chonmahatrakool )

The Ministry of Foreign announced on Friday that Thailand would sponsor a local Bimstec conference of the rulers of seven, largely South Asian nations, in April.

The conference was scheduled to take place in Bangkok on September 3 to 4 of last year, but it was postponed in August because Thailand was in caretaker government after Srettha Thavisin was dismissed as leading by a court.

The team’s meetings and conference will take place from April 2 to 4, 2025.

Founded on June 6, 1997, with the drafting of the Bangkok Declaration, Bimstec is an international company consisting of seven governments connecting South and Southeast Asia– Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

The conferences typically take place every two centuries.