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Comment: SAARC: Problems and Prospects

  • UPSC 2001, 1998
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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SAARC grew out of Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman's proposal of 1980, moved through the foreign ministers' New Delhi Declaration of 1983 and took form in the Dhaka Charter of 8 December 1985. It has eight members (Afghanistan joined in 2007), nine observers and a secretariat in Kathmandu. Built on the functionalist premise of David Mitrany,…

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