* SAARC Foreign ministers to meet in Sri Lanka tomorrow
Thursday, February 26, 2009, 14:47 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Feb 26, Colombo: The Foreign Ministers of SAARC Member States will meet in Colombo tomorrow for its 31st Inter-Summit Session, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced.

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the current Chair of SAARC is to deliver the inaugural address of this two day summit to be held at Ceylon Continental Hotel in Colombo.

Implementation of the 15th SAARC Summit Declaration as well as decisions taken at the 15th SAARC summit in Colombo last August in areas on economic and financial cooperation, operation of the SAARC Food Bank and the establishment of the new inter region bank among SAARC countries are the main topics of the summit, Foreign Ministry said.

All the eight foreign ministers of SAARC countries are to participate in the summit under the patronage of Sri Lanka Foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama.

Meanwhile Minister of State for External Affairs, E. Ahamed will represent India at the meeting in place of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama hopes to discuss matters related to the country's current situation with his Indian counterpart during this summit.