South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
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2016
September 2016: Top security experts' meeting
The Indian Express, September 21, 2016
SAARC security experts to discuss anti-terrorism mechanism
The meeting was not attended by Director General of Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan Aftab Sultan, amid the ongoing hostility between India and Pakistan over terror attack in Uri.
Top security experts from South Asian countries, except Pakistan, met in New Delhi for two days to mull ways to strengthen the anti-terrorism mechanism in the region.
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The meeting was recommended by the SAARC Ministerial Declaration on Cooperation in Combating Terrorism, adopted by the 31st Meeting of SAARC Council of Ministers in Colombo, in 2009.
It was hosted by Director of Intelligence Bureau Dineshwar Sharma and intelligence chiefs of all other SAARC nations — Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Maldives besides India — participated.
The meeting was in line with the high priority India attaches for regional cooperation in anti-terrorism activities and given that terrorism remains the single biggest threat to peace, stability and progress in the region and beyond.
The meeting provides a platform for discussing and identifying measures to tackle this menace threatening our societies.
The meeting reviewed the functioning of the existing anti-terrorism mechanisms in the region including the SAARC Terrorist Offences Monitoring Desk (STOMD) and the SAARC Drug Offences Monitoring Desk (SDOMD), intelligence sharing and police cooperation.
It also discussed related issues such as combating corruption, cyber crimes, terror financing and money laundering. The high-level meeting is expected to draw recommendations to strengthen the existing mechanisms and discuss potential new areas of cooperation.
