EIGHTEENTH SAARC-Y SUMMIT
A KATHMANDUBIOUS DECLARATION
"Deeper integration for peace and property"
The President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, His Excellency Mr Ashraf 'proxy-server-settings-are-wrong' Ghani; the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Her Excellency Sheikh 'where-be-the-peeps' Hasina; the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, His Excellency Mr Tshering 'militantly-happy' Tobgay; the Prime Minister of the Republic of India, His Excellency Mr Narendra 'my-way-or-the-highway' Modi; the President of the Republic of Maldives, His Excellency Mr Abdulla 'walk-the-line' Gayoom; the Prime Minister of Nepal, His Excellency Mr Sushil 'carry on' Koirala; the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, His Excellency Nawaz 'party-pooper' Sharif; and the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, His Excellency Mr Mahinda 'what-human-rights?' Rajapaksa met in Kathmandu, suspiciously clean and suddenly bereft of stray dogs, on 26-27 November 2014 for the Eighteenth Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
Recognising that the summit remains a platform for specious rhetoric and empty gestures;