WEEKLY CAPSULE

Name of The Summit	Members	Headquarter	Head	Venue of 2014 Summit	Venue of 2015 Summit	Venue of 2016 Summit
BRICS	Brazil Russia India China South Africa			Brazil	Russia (Ufa)	India (New Delhi)
SAARC	Members – 8 India Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh Afghanistan Maldives Pakistan Sri Lanka	Kathmandu, Nepal	Arjun BahadurThapa	Nepal Kathmandu		Pakistan (Islamabad)
SAPTA (SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement)	SAARC Countries	In December 1991, the Sixth SAARC Summit held in Colombo approved the establishment of an Inter-Governmental Group (IGG) to formulate an agreement to establish a SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) by 1997. Given the consensus within SAARC, the Agreement on SAPTA was signed on 11 April 1993 and entered into force on 7 December 1995 well in advance of the date stipulated by the Colombo Summit. The Agreement reflected the desire of the Member States to promote and sustain mutual trade and economic cooperation within the SAARC region through the exchange of concessions.
SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Area)	Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka	The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is an agreement reached on 6 January 2004 at the 12th SAARC summit in Islamabad, Pakistan. It created a free trade area of 1.6 billion people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (as of 2011, the combined population is 1.8 billion people). The seven foreign ministers of the region signed a framework agreement on SAFTA to reduce customs duties of all traded goods to zero by the year 2016.
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)	It was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Since then, membership has expanded to include Brunei, Cambodia, Laos,Myanmar (Burma), and Vietnam. *India is not a member	Jakarta, Indonesia	LêLương Minh[	Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw	Malaysia
G-8	Canada France Germany Italy Japan Russia Britain USA			European Union ( Belgium)	Germany	Japan(2016) Italy(2017) Canada(2018) France(2019) U.S.A(2020)
G-15	Algeria Argentina Brazil Chile Egypt India Indonesia Islamic Republic of Iran Jamaica Kenya Malaysia Mexico Nigeria Senegal Sri Lanka Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Zimbabwe	Geneva, Switzerland		Sri Lanka, Colombo (2012)	Japan, Tokyo
G-20	Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States			Australia, Brisbane	Turkey, Antalya	China(2016) Germany(2017) India(2018)
NAM (Non Aligned Movement)	120 Members, India is a member		Hassan Rouhani	Iran Tehran (2012)		Venezuela
APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)	21 Members. India is not a member	Singapore		China Beijing	Philippines Manila	Peru,Lima(2016) Vietman(2017)
CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting)	The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is a biennial summit meeting of the heads of government from all Commonwealth nations. Every two years the meeting is held in a different member state and is chaired by that nation's respective Prime Minister or President who becomes the Commonwealth Chair-in-Office until the next meeting.			Sri Lanka Colombo (2013)	Malta Valletta	U.K.(2018) Malaysia(2020)
NATO	Members- 28 Countries. India is not a member	Brussels, Belgium	Jens Stoltenberg
Nuclear security summit	The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is a world summit, aimed at preventingnuclear terrorism around the globe. The first summit was held in Washington, D.C.on April 12–13, 2010.			Netherlands The Hague	USA (2016)
IBSA	India, Brazil, South Africa			India (2013) Cancelled	India (2015)