SAARC meet put off

By Nirupama Subramanian

COLOMBO, JUNE 2. The special session of the SAARC standing committee, which was to take place here next week, has been postponed indefinitely following the assassination of the King and Queen of Nepal and other members of the royal family, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said today. No new dates have been fixed. The standing committee, which is the charter body of SAARC Foreign Secretaries, was scheduled to meet on June 7 and 8. The special session, called after much diplomatic exertion by Sri Lanka, which currently holds the chair of the grouping, was expected to kick-start the process for the SAARC summit, which has not been held since 1998.

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