BIMSTEC forms Eminent Persons Group to chart out future course of the seven-nation grouping

The panel will suggest a blueprint for what the grouping needs to do in future and ways to strengthen the bloc.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) has formed the Eminent Persons Group to provide future direction to the regional body. Each member country has one representative in the EPG whose formal announcement has yet to be made by the BIMSTEC Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh.