The three-day Kathmandu assembly of people’s SAARC concluded issuing a 25-point Kathmandu declaration here on Sunday.
All participants and representatives from the member states of the SAARC countries expressed their commitment to justice, peace and democracy in the South-Asian region.
The declaration has called for all governments to ensure visa-free South Asia; to strengthen and institutionalise democracy, human rights and justice; to demilitarise and denuclearise the states; to maintain communal harmony; and many others contemporary and pertinent issues.
“We express our solidarity with the people of Nepal in their struggle for realising democracy and further strengthen and defend the gains of pro-democracy movement,” read the declaration.
The declaration said the people of the region were sovereign and independent to decide the political system as per their desire.
During the conference, lawmakers and political leaders from the SAARC region have also expressed commitment to adopt the declaration to work for the people-based democratic system of the governance to develop and strengthen good governance from central to regional and grass-roots level.
