SAARC FMs meet inconclusive

The SAARC foreign ministers have stretched their meeting beyond schedule Tuesday to get at least one deal signed during the summit beginning  Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told Bangladesh journalists at about 6.30pm that they would meet again after the official dinner.
This is an unprecedented event in the SAARC foreign ministers-level parleys that after concluding all agendas the meeting had been adjourned.
“We are trying to get the energy cooperation deal signed,” he said as the Nepal foreign ministry cancelled its scheduled briefing for foreign journalists.
Ali, however, ruled out any chance of signing the two other deals related to road and railway connectivity during the summit.
Though he did not name the country because of which those signing would not take place, it was an established fact in Kathmandu that Pakistan was not agreeing to sign those deals.
The signing does not mean that member states would implement those as it could not live up to their earlier promises that include implementing South Asian free trade regime and South Asian economic union, according to a news agency.