CT-No.3 please add a few more summit

• 17th SAARC summit- Addu city

(The Seventeenth Summit was held from 10-11 of November 2011 in Addu City, Maldives. The Meeting, which was held at the Equatorial Convention Centre, Addu City was opened by the outgoing Chair of SAARC, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Bhutan, H.E.Lyonchhen Jigmi Yoezer Thinley.)-

•  theme - “Building Bridges
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  Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed

  March 1, 2011 is  Current secretary

    The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)  is an organisation of South Asian nations, founded in December 1985 by Ziaur Rahman and dedicated to economic, technological, social, and cultural development emphasising collective self-reliance.

• Its seven founding members are Sri Lanka, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Afghanistan joined the organization in 2005.
•  Meetings of heads of state are usually scheduled annually; meetings of foreign secretaries, twice annually. It is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The 16 stated areas of cooperation are agriculture and

•  rural, biotechnology, culture, energy, environment, economy and trade, finance, funding mechanism, human resource development, poverty alleviation, people to people contact, security aspects, social development, science and technology, communications, and tourism.

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)-last meeting

23rd

November 12–13, 2011

United States

Honolulu

 is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries (formally Member Economies) that seeks to promote free trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

India has requested membership in APEC, and received initial support from the United States, Japan^[4] and Australia. Officials have decided not to allow India to join for various reasons.^] However, the decision was made not to admit more members until 2010. Moreover, India does not border the Pacific Ocean, which all current members do.
However, India has been invited to be an observer for the first time in November 2011

•  Established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific economies and the advent of regional economic blocs (such as the European Union) in other parts of the world, APEC works to raise living standards and education levels through sustainable economic growth and to foster a sense of community and an appreciation of shared interests among Asia-Pacific countries.
• Members account for approximately 40% of the world's population,
•  approximately 54% of the world's gross domestic product and about 44% of world trade.^[1]

An annual APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting is attended by the heads of government of all APEC members except the Republic of China (Taiwan), which is represented under the name Chinese Taipei by a ministerial-level official.

• The location of the meeting rotates annually among the member economies, and until 2011, a famous tradition involved the attending leaders dressing in a national costume of the host member.

• CHOGM   Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting -
• last meeting held in Australia Perth

BRICS is an international political organisation of leading emerging economies, arising out of the inclusion of South Africa into the BRIC group in 2010. As of 2012, its five members are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.^[2] With the possible exception of Russia,^[3] the BRICS members are all developing or newly industrialised countries, but they are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies^[4] and significant influence on regional and global affairs. As of 2012, the five BRICS countries represent almost 3 billion people, with a combined nominal GDP of US$13.7 trillion,^[1] and an estimated US$4 trillion in combined foreign reserves.^[5

IBSA- last summit in swane
The IBSA Dialogue Forum (India, Brazil, South Africa) is an international tripartite grouping for promoting international cooperation among these countries.

•  It represents three important poles for galvanizing South-South cooperation and greater understanding between three important continents of the developing world namely, Africa, Asia and South America.
• The forum provides the three countries with a platform to engage in discussions for cooperation in the field of agriculture, trade, culture, and defence among others.

The IBSA Dialogue Forum plays an increasingly important role in the foreign policies of India, Brazil and South Africa.
 It has become instrumental for promoting ever closer coordination on global issues between three large multicultural and multiracial democracies of Asia, South America and Africa, and contributed to enhancing trilateral India-Brazil-South Africa cooperation in sectoral areas.