SAARC

The SAARC is stands of the newly formed South Association for Regional Co-orporation
(or South Asian Region Co-operation). It is a voluntary association of the eight country of the south Asian,namely,Bangladesh,India,Pakistan.Nepal,Bhutan,Sri lanka, Maldives & Afghanistan(new added).Its aim is to fight against poverty, to work in co-operation on matter of mutual interest in the economic, social, technical and cultural field. Indeed, the Association embodies the hopes and aspiration of nearly 1,ooo million people of the region to work unitedly for improvement of the quality of their lives, and for peace, progress and stability of the region.

The idea of co-operation among the country of this region was not altogether new. It, however,got a workable shape in the discussion of the late President of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, with the heads of states of Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri lanka during a series of his visits to those countries in 1977-80. In May 1980, he sent out letters of various capital proposing institution arrangement for regional co-operation among South Asian state. On November 25,1980, Bangladesh prepared and circulated a working paper outlining step-by-step approach to a summit meeting and selecting a number of possible areas of co-operation.

The evolution of the SAARC may be viewed in a number of phases. The second but important phase began with the meeting of the foreign secretaries of seven South Asian countries in Colombo in 1981. The Colombo meeting emphasized the historical significance and important of regional co-operation in south Asian and considered it to be beneficial desirable and necessary.This meeting also formulated the two basic principles of lasting of significance, namely: 1. Decision in the SAARC should be taken on the basic of unanimity and 2. Bilateral disputed issues should not be included in the agenda.
The Colombo meeting also identified live possible areas of co-operation and appointed a co-operator country for each area. Regional co-operation took another impotent step at Kathmandu when the foreign secretory of the seven countries upgraded the study groups into Working Group. The Working Groups were entrusted with the drawing up of comprehensive programmes of action for co-operation in both the immediate and long term phases. At the same time three new areas of possible co-operation were identified. The process of co-operation moved forward to an active phase with the first foreign ministers meeting of south Asian countries held in new Delhi on August 1-2 1983. The meeting formally adopted a Deceleration to lunch the Integrated Program of Action. The Phase was further consolidated in the first session of the standing committee help in New Delhi on 27-28 February, 1984 and in the combined efforts of the standing committee and the second and third meeting of the Foreign Minister held in Male and Thimphu respectability.