QUICK FACTS on BIMSTEC

• Regional organization comprising seven Member States lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity
• BIMSTEC has also established a platform for intra-regional cooperation between SAARC and ASEAN members.
• Technological and economic cooperation among south Asian and southeast Asian countries
• Commerce, investment, technology, tourism, human resource development, agriculture, fisheries, transport and communication, textiles, leather etc. have been included in it
• Region – 22 % of the total world population.

The first BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise-2017 (DMEx-2017) was held in New Delhi.

• New Members:  Myanmar-1997, Bhutan and Nepal – 2004

Renamed BIMSTEC in 2004 Summit.

• Alphabetical Order
• Currently – Sri Lanka

• 1^st Summit: Thailand in 2004
• 2^nd Summit : India in 2008
• 3 rd Summit: Myanmar in 2014
• 4^th Summit: Nepal in 2018
• 5^th Summit: Sri Lanka – 2022