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PEOPLES SAARC 2008 to be held in Colombo |
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
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South Asian heads of government will meet in Colombo, Sri Lanka for the annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit between 27 July and 3 August 2008.
Social movements and peoples' organisations will also converge in parallel to the SAARC summit to raise our agenda for our region, to demonstrate our will for friendship, solidarity and visa-free movement of people across imposed boundaries, and to manifest our desire for a peoples union of South Asia.
On 18, 19 and 20 July 2008, hundreds of women, workers, peasants,
artisans, urban and rural poor, students and youth, cultural activists,
scholar activists, and representatives of marginalised and excluded
social groups and communities from around South Asia will gather at
Peoples SAARC 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
All those who affirm the vision of a peoples union of South Asia to
join country-level preparations, mobilise for, and participate in
Peoples SAARC 2008 in Colombo on 18, 19 and 20 July 2008.
In India there was a preparatory meeting held in Chennai on June 14th
to discuss the Indian participation. Representatives from many
organizations attended and discussed the agenda and the politics of the
SAARC formation, and the road ahead. There are still many organsations
yet to relate to the process. It was decided to contact these
organizations in each state and to make the Peoples SAARC into the
broadest possible process in order to build a broad unity of people in
South Asia and to also imagine a South Asia without borders.
For information contact- in Srilanka: Secretariat, Peoples SAARC 2008,
19/1/1, Siri Dhamma Mawatha, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka or Email
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or Tel: +94 11 267 2586.
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