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Foreign and trade ministers of seven-member BIMSTEC are due to arrive in the city next week to attend the 8th ministerial meeting to be held on December 19. The meeting would mainly focus on trade, poverty alleviation, terrorism and trans-nation crimes. The grouping comprising Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand will hold the formal meeting at Hotel Sheraton. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will inaugurate the meet. The one-day ministerial meeting will be preceded by the 10th BIMSTEC Senior Officials Meeting to be represented by foreign secretaries of the member states who will be in the city on December 17. —UNB
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