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        "id": 1428254,
        "msgid": "saarc-to-meet-on-trade-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-03-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "SAARC to meet on trade",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "SAARC to meet on trade ISLAMABAD (Reuters): Foreign ministers of a seven-nation South Asian bloc will meet in Colombo on March 18-19 to discuss economic cooperation, including plans to set up a free trade area, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.",
        "content": "<p>SAARC to meet on trade<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD (Reuters): Foreign ministers of a seven-nation South<br>\nAsian bloc will meet in Colombo on March 18-19 to discuss<br>\neconomic cooperation, including plans to set up a free trade<br>\narea, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman told reporters that the Indian and Pakistani<br>\nforeign ministers were also likely to discuss disputes between<br>\ntheir countries on the sidelines of the Council of Ministers of<br>\nthe seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation<br>\n(SAARC), which also includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal<br>\nand Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting would review implementation of the decisions at a<br>\nSAARC summit held in Colombo last July and progress on speeding<br>\nup economic cooperation, a ministry statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\"In particular it would review the progress under the SAARC<br>\nPreferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) and the transition to<br>\nSouth Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA),\" it said.<\/p>\n<p>SAPTA came into force in December 1995 and a SAARC summit in<br>\n1997 in the Maldives decided to cut tariffs and remove non-tariff<br>\nbarriers with the aim of setting up SAFTA by 2001.<\/p>",
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