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BSS, Dhaka

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) ministerial meeting on poverty alleviation will be held here on July 9.

Senior officials of the member countries will meet on July 8 to prepare the ground work for the meeting, official sources said today.

The issues which are expected to figure prominently at the meeting include food security, environment and climate change.

The senior officials of member countries are also expected to discuss the mechanism for exchange of information on best practices to tackle poverty, achieve millennium development goals (MDGs) and explore ways and means to develop project based collaboration among the member countries, the sources said.

BIMSTEC members are Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.