Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kaji Shrestha has said that Nepal is considering a proposal to host the 18th annual summit of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC), scheduled for February 2013.
Shrestha has said that it is “Nepal’s turn to host the 18th SAARC summit, so we will probably do it.”
The SAARC Charter stipulates that Nepal will organise the summit by November 2012.
South Asian News Agency reports that Nepal intends to ask the Maldives, which is hosting the upcoming summit in Addu atoll between November 10-12 and will subsequently be made SAARC chair, for a three-month grace period.
