THE 16TH SAARC, HELD IN THINPU (BHUTAN) – 2010.
This last meeting of the group came under the name of “Towards a Green and Happy South Asia”.
In a movement that weakened the institutional settlement of the organization but possibly strengthened their individual capability to go ahead the rethoric history of promises never lead ahead of the paper, this time the main core was the recover of dialogue between India and Pakistan, ended since the 26-11-2008 terrorist attempt in Mumbay.
This is institutionally harmfull for the SAARC was buil under the clausule of not hosting bilateral differences in its foras.
Pression of all the neighbours and the previous pressure of Obama in his visit to India made India and Pakistan recover dialogue, and that’s clearly the main achievement of the Fora.
However, other dynamics were played, with special emphasis to the Bhutanese goal of improving clean technology transfer and political agreements on management of common goods, mainly watter.
The more concrete decisions on this purpose, however, were barried by the Pakistani refusal of taking part in a Afghani-Bangladeshi road and in a Rapid Response to Natural Disasters Mechanism.
Among the many old projects just in the paper, they mentioned the South Asia University, and settled an academical seminar on the issue to August.
It was also meaningful to note that by the first time civil-society enjoyed a full opinative role, and brought many ideas… it’s expected that this trend continue even after a not so comprehensive chairmanship of the SAAR summit.
The next will be in the Maldives in 2011.
The bilateral approach was not only regarding Indo-Pak… Afghanistan also raised severe critiques to the Pak hosting terrorism.
India didn’t mention that issue in the main speech, just in the parallel meetings and under others auspices… its main speech pointed for the urgency of embodying the vast rethoric of SAARC.
Maldives president stated that the Indo-Pak issue is locking the regional development and urged it to be solved soon… therefore pressuring for the recovery of dialogue.
By its time, Pakistany prime-minister pointed that terrorism is rooted in social-historic lack of justice, implicitly denying its guilt on hosting terrorism and, at the same time, suggesting the continuation of such practices.
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