Sustainable Mountain Development Summit kicks off in Gangtok

2nd Sustainable Mountain Development Summit begins in Gangtok in Sikkim. ‘Sikkim Declaration’ that will highlight key concerns of the Himalayan region will conclude the summit. Following the Summit, The Global Legislators Organization for Balanced Environment may open its State Branch ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2012

Category: Summits and Conferences

G-20 Cannes summit 2011

G-20 is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies which include 19 countries viz. South Africa, Canada, Mexico, United States, Argentina, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey, France, Germany, Italy, ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011

Category: Summits and Conferences

Seventeenth SAARC Summit & Addu Declaration

Recently, the Seventeenth SAARC Summit was concluded in Maldives with the release of the Addu Declaration. Here is a brief discussion: What is SAARC? South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was founded in December 1985 by Ziaur Rahman and ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011

Category: Summits and Conferences

5th IBSA summit, Pretoria and Tshwane Declaration

The President of the Republic of South Africa Jacob Zuma, the Prime Minister of the Republic of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, and the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Ms. Dilma Rousseff met at the Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011

Category: Summits and Conferences

High Level Summit on Climate Change at UN Headquarters

  On 22 September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a high-level Summit on Climate Change, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. The summit brought together political leaders, including 100 Heads of State and ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2009

Category: Summits and Conferences