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Foreign ministers of seven south and southeast Asian nations pose for a picture during the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Economic Cooperation meeting in Dhaka December 19, 2005. Seen in the picture are are U Nign Win, Myanmer foreign minister; Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, Bhutan's foreign minister; E.Ahmed, India's minister of state for external affairs; M. Morshed Khan, Bangladesh's foreign minister; Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Thailand's minister for foreign affairs; Ramesh Nath Pandey, Nepal's foreign minister; and Karunetilaka Amumugama, additional secretary in Sri Lanka's ministry of foreign affairs. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman