
Foreign Secretary of Nepal, Mr Shanker Das Bairagi, speaking in the Raisina Dialogue 2018, on the panel theme “Towards a Bay of Bengal Community: Development, Growth & Security”
Unedited notes from the Foreign Secretary Mr Bairagi’s presentation on BIMSTEC: ## The world has witnessed the waves of liberalization, privatization and globalization. More recently, the forces of economic nationalism have been quite active. Amidst these uneven developments and contradictions, we, the BIMSTEC members, need to define a vision for where we will be heading as a region and as