Bangladesh is India’s biggest trade partner: Modi

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News Desk :
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has said that Bangladesh is the biggest development and trade partner of India in the region.
“In the last few years, our mutual cooperation has increased rapidly in every field,” Modi said after talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, who is on a four-day state visit to India.
Modi said, “Trade between India-Bangladesh is growing rapidly. Today, India is the largest market in Asia for Bangladesh’s exports.”
The Indian premier said Delhi will soon start talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with Dhaka to further accelerate the bilateral trade growth.
“We also decided to increase cooperation in sectors like IT, space and nuclear energy, which are of interest to our younger generations,” said Narendra Modi, adding the two neighbouring countries will also continue to cooperate on climate change and on preserving a common heritage like the Sundarbans.
Seven MoUs (Memorandum of Understandings) were signed between the two neighbouring countries after the bilateral talks.
“Today, we have signed an important agreement on sharing water of the Kushiyara river. This will benefit southern Assam in India and Sylhet region in Bangladesh,” Modi told reporters after the talks with Hasina, reports news agencies.
He said there were 54 rivers that pass through the Indo-Bangladesh border, and have been linked to the livelihood of the people of the two countries for centuries.
“These rivers, folk tales about them, folk songs, have also been witness to our shared cultural heritage,” Modi said.
Modi also said he and Hasina had a fruitful conversation on enhancing cooperation in relation to flood mitigation.
“India has been sharing flood-related data with Bangladesh on a real-time basis and we have also extended the period of data sharing,” Modi said.

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