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Bay of Bengal Initiative for
Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation |
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BIMSTEC holds frequent meetings. Each type of Meeting is tasked with unique responsibilities, but are closely interrelated to one another (Links to BIMSTEC Working Structure). The Country holding the Chairmanship of BIMSTEC is responsible for the conduct of regular meetings e.g. Summit, Ministerial Meeting, Senior Officials' Meeting and BIMSTEC Working Group Meeting. The main working mechanism of BIMSTEC is categorised as follows: |
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1. Policy Making Body
1.1 BIMSTEC Summit
1.2 Ministerial Meetings (MM)
Ministerial Meeting: is divided into the area of foreign affairs (MM) and the area of trade and economic affairs (TEMM). While the Foreign Ministerial Meeting acts as prime mover determining the overall policy as well as recommendations for the Leaders' Summit, Trade and Economic Ministerial Meeting monitors the progress in the Trade and Investment Sector as well as FTA policy.
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2. Operational Body
Senior Officials' Meeting: is divided into the area of foreign affairs (SOM) and the area of trade and economic affairs (STEOM). Permanent secretaries of the foreign affairs and that of trade and economic affairs will be the delegations to their respective forum.
2.1 Senior Officials' Meetings (SOM): is assigned to monitor progress of the remaining sectors, which will be reported by the BWG, then forward to the Foreign Ministerial Meeting.
2.2 Senior Trade/ Economic Officials' Meetings (STEOM) : Tasks belonging to the STEOM are the negotiation of the BIMSTEC FTA, cooperation in the Trade and Investment Sector and its 15 sub-sectors, which are to be reported to the Trade and Economic Ministerial Meeting.
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3. Coordinating Body
BIMSTEC Working Group in Bangkok (BWG) : is attended by the Director-General or Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Economic Affairs and the Ambassadors of BIMSTEC member countries to Thailand or their representatives, as well as representatives from other concerned agencies. he meeting takes place monthly at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow up and push forward progress in each cooperation sector, as well as to study prospects and policies of cooperation before reporting to the SOM. In this connection, the BIMSTEC Center has been established since June 2004 to support works the BIMSTEC Working Group.
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4. Expert Group Meeting
The Lead Countries of the 13 priority sectors of cooperation and 15 sub-sectors are to host expert group meetings of their responsible sectors regularly and report the result to the BIMSTEC Working Group in Bangkok (BWG) via respective Embassies to Thailand. The result will then be further reported to the SOM.
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