Kathmandu, Aug 24: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Krishna Bahadur Mahara left here today for Pakistan to participate in the Eighth SAARC Finance Ministers’ Meeting.
Mahara left for Pakistan at 9.30 pm today, according to the DPM’s press advisor, Tribhuvan Poudel. Accompanying the Finance Minister are Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mani Bhattarai and the Joint Secretary at the Finance Ministry Baikuntha Aryal.
DPM Mahara will return home on August 27 after attending the meeting in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on August 25 and 26. The meeting will hold discussions on topics related to regional trade and investment, it is stated.
The Finance Minister level meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been holding discussion on matters pertaining trade facilitation to the formation of the South Asian Economic Union. The meeting is also said to review the implementation status of the decisions taken by the Seventh SAARC Finance Minister level meeting held in Nepal last year. RSS
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