Following are the highlights of the Declaration adopted at the 14th SAARC Summit :
- Afghanistan inducted as eighth member of the Grouping.
- SAARC Development Fund to be operational at the earliest.
- Comprehensive pact on harmonising customs procedures to be finalised
- Establishment of SAARC Standards Coordinational Board.
- Agreement to combat terrorism, narcotics and psychotropic substances, trafficking in women and children and other trans-national crimes.
- Need to overcome the challenges of poverty, disease, natural disasters and terrorism.
- Agreement by member countries to work together to deal with these challenges in order to secure the region's collective prosperity
- Agreement to improve intra-regional connectivity, particularly physical, economic and people-to-people connectivity
- To establish SAARC Food Bank with participation of all SAARC countries
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