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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries have agreed to amend domestic legislations and bring them at par with international laws against terrorism.
The move comes ahead of their foreign ministers' meet in Kathmandu on Wednesday to discuss threats posed by terrorism and steps to enhance economic cooperation.
The foreign secretaries of bloc agreed in principle during their two-day deliberations in Kathmandu that each member needed to pass legislation to implement the SAARC Convention Against Terrorism.
The SAARC secretariat will make a compendium of all enabling laws.
"This is important in terms of creating necessary institutional framework under which the countries can actually cooperate and make extradition easy," Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal said.
The foreign ministers will take a final view on this and other issues confronting the region during their two-day meet.
The meeting will also provide External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and Pakistan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Inamul Haq to come face-to-face for the first time. However, no bilateral meeting is slated for them.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Maldives are members of SAARC.
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