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Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed Sunday laid emphasis on political consensus in the regions of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries to implement its charter properly, reports BSS.

He was addressing as the_, chief guest the seminar on "follow-up of SAARC summit de­cisions concerning the SAARC social charter" organized by South Asia Center for Policy Studies (SACEPS) in collaboration with Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in a city hotel Sunday. Managing Director of Grameen Bank Ltd. Prof. Muhammad Yunus chaired the meeting.

Chief socio-economic governance and management branch of United Nations in New York Dr. Adil Khan. Ex­ecutive Director of SAC EPS Prof. Rehman Sobhan, convener of SACEPS task force on the citizen's charter Dr. God­frey Gunatilleke of Sri Lanka, coordinator of citizen's social charter preparation task force of India Prof. Muchkund Dubey and Khushi Kabir of Ni­jera Kori took part in the discussion.

"Much achievement have already been achieved in the fields of poverty alleviation, spreading education, empow­erment of women in the SAARC region." Moudud said, adding. "if there were any lacuna in the SAARC charter necessary amendment would be adopted in this regard. "If the SAARC charter implemented, which was officially adopted at the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January this year designed to deal social, political, economic and human rights issues in the region, peace would establish, the law minister said.