question: What is the name of this regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of nations in South Asia whose president is Padma Jyoti?
answer: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
context: Title: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  Passage: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of nations in South Asia.  Its member states include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.  SAARC comprises 3% of the world's area, 21% of the world's population and 3.8% (US$ 2.9 trillion) of the global economy, as of 2015.
  Title: SAARC Secretary General
  Passage: The Secretary–General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, is the head of the SAARC Secretariat, which is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal.  The SAARC is an economic and geopolitical union between the eight South Asian member nations, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.  The Secretary-General is appointed for a three-year term by election by a council of Ministers from member states.  The Secretary-General is assisted by eight deputies, one from each nation, who also reside in Kathmandu. The SAARC Secretariat was established in Kathmandu on 16 January 1987 by the Bangladeshi diplomat Abul Ahsan, who was its first Secretary-General, and was inaugurated by King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal.  Since its creation, its member nations have contributed to a total of thirteen General Secretaries.  Pakistan’s Diplomat Amjad Hussain B. Sial is the current Secretary-General, having assumed charge on March 1, 2017.
  Title: United Nations Charter
  Passage: The Charter of the United Nations (also known as the UN Charter) of 1945 is the foundational treaty of the United Nations, an intergovernmental organization.  It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States, on 26 June 1945, by 50 of the 51 original member countries (Poland, the other original member, which was not represented at the conference, signed it two months later).  It entered into force on 24 October 1945, after being ratified by the original five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the Republic of China (after 1949, located in Taiwan and was later replaced by the People's Republic of China), the Provisional Government of the French Republic (later replaced by the Fourth Republic and then the Fifth Republic), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (later replaced by the Russian Federation), the United Kingdom, and the United States—and a majority of the other signatories.
  Title: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  Passage: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN , ) is a regional intergovernmental organisation comprising ten Southeast Asian states which promotes Pan-Asianism and intergovernmental cooperation and facilitates economic, political, military, educational and cultural integration amongst its members and Asian states.  Since its formation on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, the organisation's membership has expanded to include Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.  Its principal aims include accelerating economic growth, social progress, and sociocultural evolution among its members, alongside the protection of regional stability and the provision of a mechanism for member countries to resolve differences peacefully.  ASEAN is an official United Nations Observer.  Communication by members across nations takes place in English.
  Title: Padma Jyoti
  Passage: Padma Jyoti Kansakar (Nepali: पद्मज्योति ) is a Nepalese industrialist and politician.  Trained in management and technology, Jyoti is the Chairman of Jyoti Group of Companies and was the president of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.  In 2002 he was elected as president of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Chambers of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) at the 8th SCCI General Assembly.  He holds a degree from a MIT.  He oversees many operations for several industries under Jyoti Group.  He is of 62 years of age.  He is probably most talented executive Nepal has ever known.
  Title: Trade bloc
  Passage: A trade bloc is a type of intergovernmental agreement, often part of a regional intergovernmental organization, where barriers to trade (tariffs and others) are reduced or eliminated among the participating states.
  Title: International Organization for Migration
  Passage: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is an intergovernmental organization that provides services and advice concerning migration to governments and migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers.  As of September 2016, it became a related organization of the United Nations.  It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) to help resettle people displaced by World War II.  As of June 2016, the International Organization for Migration has 166 member states and 8 observer states.
  Title: World Meteorological Organization
  Passage: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 191 Member States and Territories.  It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873.  Established by the ratification of the WMO Convention on 23 March 1950, WMO became the specialised agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences a year later.  Its current Secretary-General is Petteri Taalas and the President of the World Meteorological Congress, its supreme body, is David Grimes.  The Organization is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
  Title: United Nations
  Passage: The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order.  A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.  At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193.  The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, and is subject to extraterritoriality.  Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna.  The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states.  Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict.  The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world.
  Title: ALBA
  Passage: ALBA or ALBA-TCP, formally the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Spanish: "Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América" ) or the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade Treaty (Spanish: "Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América - Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos" ), is an intergovernmental organization based on the idea of the social, political and economic integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.  The name "Bolivarian" refers to the ideology of Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century South American independence leader born in Caracas who wanted Hispanic America to unite as a single "Great Nation."  Founded initially by Cuba and Venezuela in 2004, it is associated with socialist and social democratic governments wishing to consolidate regional economic integration based on a vision of social welfare, bartering and mutual economic aid.  The eleven member countries are Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Grenada, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela.  Suriname was admitted to ALBA as a guest country at a February 2012 summit.  ALBA nations may conduct trade using a virtual regional currency known as the SUCRE.  Venezuela and Ecuador made the first bilateral trade deal using the Sucre, instead of the US dollar, on July 6, 2010.
citations: Padma Jyoti South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation