{"id":20464,"date":"2025-04-04T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20464"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:11:18","slug":"bimstec-summit-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bimstec-summit-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"BIMSTEC summit kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Bangkok, April 4: The sixth Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) kicked off at Hotel Shangri-La here.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of the governments from BIMSTEC member states had a photo session and entered the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, the event host country, welcomed the delegations.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and other delegations are addressing the Summit today.<\/p>\n<p>Following a ceremony signing on the &#8216;BIMSTEC Maritime Transport Cooperation&#8217;, the heads of the delegations Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka are addressing the event.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20465\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bimstec-summit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20466\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bimstec-summit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20467\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bimstec-summit-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20468\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bimstec-summit-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20469\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bimstec-summit-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, April 4: The sixth Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) kicked off at Hotel Shangri-La here. Chief of the governments from BIMSTEC member states had a photo session and entered the agenda. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, the event host country, welcomed the delegations. Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20472,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions\/20472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}