The first woman Secretary-General of SAARC was from which country?
A
Maldives
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B
Bhutan
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C
Sri Lanka
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D
India
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Solution
The correct option is A Maldives Maldives.
Secretariat is headed by a secretary-general. Fatimah Dhiyana Saeed was the first female to become secretary-general of SAARC. She became secretary-general in 1985. The SAARC Secretariat is situated in Kathmandu, Nepal. It arranges and screens execution of exercises, gets ready for and administrations gatherings, and fills in as a channel of correspondence between the Association and its Member States just as other provincial associations.