[China has identified four areas of cooperation with SAARC namely poverty alleviation, sharing experience and information on disaster relief, human resources development and infrastructure and energy secretor. It is already engaged in cooperation with SAARC members in these areas and has enough resources as well as intent to enhance this kind of cooperation, further. These areas are central to achieve the objective of promoting people to people contacts between China and SAARC.]
Kant K. Bhargava, Mahendra P. Lama, 'SAARC 2015: Expanding Horizons and Forging Cooperation in a Resurgent Asia', Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, New Delhi, 2007
Ibid.
Nirupama Subramanian, 'China for boosting SAARC ties'. The Hindu, April 2, 2007.
An Observer Country: China Extends Cooperation to SAARC, Beyond Borders, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2007.
Ibid.
Dr. Hu Shisherig is Director South Asia Division at the Chinese Institutes for Contemporary International Relations, Beijing. He mentioned these constraints to this scribe on the sidelines of a conference in Beiiinq in April 2008.
Najamuddin A. Shaikh, 'As SAARC Comes of Age', Dawn, April 4, 2007.
SAARC Development Goals (SDGs), 2007-2012 at www.saarc- sec.org