UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh and India will have a foreign secretary-level meeting in New Delhi on Monday to review the existing relations and expand ‘multi-sectoral cooperation’ between the two countries.
Foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque leaves Dhaka for New Delhi on Sunday on a three-day visit to attend the meeting at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Dr S Jaishankar, said an official.
Bangladesh side is expected to focus on water issues apart from discussing other bilateral matters, said the official.
Indian side sees the meeting as an opportunity for them to ‘take forward cooperation’ with Bangladesh in a number of sectors.
“You know the number of agreements that were signed during the Prime Minister’s visit to Bangladesh. So, this will be an opportunity for us to really expand our multi-sectoral cooperation with Bangladesh in all those sectors,” Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Vikas Swarup said in a regular briefing in Delhi.
Haque is also expected to meet Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti and National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Kumar Doval during his New Delhi visit.
Earlier, newly appointed Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh V Shringla had a ‘courtesy meeting’ with the Bangladesh Foreign Secretary at the latter’s office and discussed the visit and upcoming meeting.
Terming water-sharing issue between Bangladesh and India, a ‘sensitive’ one, Bangladesh has already said it is in favor of setting up of a joint basin management system for common rivers.
“Our relation has reached its height and we want to resolve all our problems through understanding. Although maximum issues have been solved, water-sharing still remains a sensitive one and we want a common basin management system for sharing of waters of common rivers,” Indian media quoted Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali as saying.
He said, Bangladesh was in favour of a “win-win situation” for equitable share of the common rivers as the country was facing the crisis of water and the rivers were drying up.
Bangladesh and India will have a foreign secretary-level meeting in New Delhi on Monday to review the existing relations and expand ‘multi-sectoral cooperation’ between the two countries.
Foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque leaves Dhaka for New Delhi on Sunday on a three-day visit to attend the meeting at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Dr S Jaishankar, said an official.
Bangladesh side is expected to focus on water issues apart from discussing other bilateral matters, said the official.
Indian side sees the meeting as an opportunity for them to ‘take forward cooperation’ with Bangladesh in a number of sectors.
“You know the number of agreements that were signed during the Prime Minister’s visit to Bangladesh. So, this will be an opportunity for us to really expand our multi-sectoral cooperation with Bangladesh in all those sectors,” Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Vikas Swarup said in a regular briefing in Delhi.
Haque is also expected to meet Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti and National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Kumar Doval during his New Delhi visit.
Earlier, newly appointed Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh V Shringla had a ‘courtesy meeting’ with the Bangladesh Foreign Secretary at the latter’s office and discussed the visit and upcoming meeting.
Terming water-sharing issue between Bangladesh and India, a ‘sensitive’ one, Bangladesh has already said it is in favor of setting up of a joint basin management system for common rivers.
“Our relation has reached its height and we want to resolve all our problems through understanding. Although maximum issues have been solved, water-sharing still remains a sensitive one and we want a common basin management system for sharing of waters of common rivers,” Indian media quoted Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali as saying.
He said, Bangladesh was in favour of a “win-win situation” for equitable share of the common rivers as the country was facing the crisis of water and the rivers were drying up.
