2-day BCIM jt study group meeting in Cox’s Bazar from Wednesday

The 2-day 2nd meeting of the Joint Study Group of the emerging regional cooperation framework – Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Cooperation (BCIM-EC) begins in the beach town Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque will preside over the meeting to be hosted by the Bangladesh government. The meeting will consider the (national) studies to be presented by each of the 4 countries outlining perspectives and expectations of each country on the objectives, scope and modalities of cooperation as also cooperation in a number of agreed sectors: trade in goods and services, investment and financing, trade facilitations, energy, multimodal connectivity, sustainable development, human resource development, poverty alleviation, people to people connectivity, according to a foreign ministry release.