Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged the south Asian countries for the immediate and group collective response to handle the danger of the terrorism destroying the region. He also said that the terrorism impacted the whole world in one way or another. The SAARC meeting concludes that to adopt the declaration on terrorism. One of the main item of the declaration pertains to review all the instruments adopted by SARRC over the years to handle the challenge of terrorism.
He also said that Member countries of SARRC should not show any hesitation to take forceful action against the terrorism internationally. Mr. Rajapaksa said that in the SAARC region, and in multi-lateral fora like the United Nations, there is an agreement on a continuous of measures on how to combat terrorism with accepted universal values and standards and the time has come to re dedicate to fully implement them. He also appreciated his co-workers for the support in SARRC telemedicine project, project in agriculture and tele-education project. Minister of external affairs E.Ahamed appreciated the operationalisation of SARRC food bank and development fund.