Pathfinder and India Foundation to host Regional Conference on BIMSTEC

The discussions will also consider the group’s way ahead and build on the brand BIMSTEC 

The 5th BIMSTEC Leaders’ Summit will take place in Colombo with enhanced importance on challenges and uncertainties brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic on the BIMSTEC members, which stresses a greater need for collaboration on technical and economic cooperation. Against this backdrop, India Foundation, a think-tank based in New Delhi in partnership with the Pathfinder Foundation, Colombo, is organizing a Roundtable of thought leaders from the member states on the theme “BIMSTEC: Building an enabling architecture for peace, prosperity, 
and partnership. 

The conference which will be held at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo on March 31 and April 1, 2022,  aims to exchange views on common challenges hindering the progress in the priority areas of economic cooperation including enhancement of connectivity and promoting people to people contact which are considered to be of paramount importance for the peace and stability among member countries of BIMSTEC. The discussions will also consider the group’s way ahead and build on the brand BIMSTEC. 

• The conference will be held at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel on March 31 and April 1, 2022