If Male’s President Maumoon Gayoom must be credited for the holding of the Sixth SAARC Summit in Colombo last week, Bhutan’s King Jigme Wangchuk will have had to blame for its near abortion.
However the Bhutan King found time this round to attend SAARC given his problems at home remains unexplained in these apologies in Colombo.
But that he was to find time after four SAARC countries met in Colombo despite the initial abortion is indicative of internal SAARC fissures. How Nepal has become part of the fissure with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala towing the India stand in contrast to other member countries remain explained in his speech in Colombo too.
People’s Review, 25 December 1991
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