The Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry yesterday said the invitation extended to the Foreign Minister of Myanmar was to attend the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting to be hosted virtually on 1 April in Colombo.
Sri Lanka as the Chair of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and the host of the Ministerial Meeting has invited all Member States (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand) to participate in the discussions in order to finalise documents of the fifth BIMSTEC Summit expected to be held later this year in Sri Lanka, it added in a short statement.
(FT)