Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh and India will work more closely on various issues specially relating to connectivity, security, counter terrorism, energy cooperation and migrant welfare, said Indian State Minister for External Affairs General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd) on Monday.
“India will work closely with Bangladesh to create a seamlessly connected and secure Asia,” he said this during a bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart, ShahriarAlam, MP, State Minister for Foreign Affairs in Bangkok.
They discussed a wide range of bilateral issues on the sidelines of the 2nd two-day Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit in Bangkok. The two-day summit ended yesterday.
They also discussed in length the various bilateral and quadrilateral road and rail connectivity projects such as BBIN (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal), and BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar).
ShahriarAlam said Bangladesh looks towards moving the regional connectivity and energy security agenda forward, together with India under the ACD and other regional cooperation
frameworks to the mutual benefit of the people of two countries.
Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs reiterated Bangladesh’s invitation to India for the 9th GFMD Summit in December 2016 in Dhaka and briefed him on the proposal made by Bangladesh Prime Minister for a Global Compact on Migration for the welfare of migrant workers.
The two ministers agreed to work together for greater welfare of migrant workers from Bangladesh and India in different parts of the world.
ShahriarAlam briefed the Indian Minister about Bangladesh’s ASEAN Dialogue Partner aspirations and sought support of India, already an ASEAN Dialogue Partner, in facilitating Bangladesh’s bid.
Recalling his tour of duty in Chittagong during Bangladesh’s War of Liberation in 1971, General Singh assured the Bangladesh Minister that as in 1971, India would continue to support Bangladesh in its efforts towards countering terrorism, regional connectivity and its ASEAN Dialogue Partnership bid.
Bangladesh and India will work more closely on various issues specially relating to connectivity, security, counter terrorism, energy cooperation and migrant welfare, said Indian State Minister for External Affairs General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd) on Monday.
“India will work closely with Bangladesh to create a seamlessly connected and secure Asia,” he said this during a bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart, ShahriarAlam, MP, State Minister for Foreign Affairs in Bangkok.
They discussed a wide range of bilateral issues on the sidelines of the 2nd two-day Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit in Bangkok. The two-day summit ended yesterday.
They also discussed in length the various bilateral and quadrilateral road and rail connectivity projects such as BBIN (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal), and BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar).
ShahriarAlam said Bangladesh looks towards moving the regional connectivity and energy security agenda forward, together with India under the ACD and other regional cooperation
frameworks to the mutual benefit of the people of two countries.
Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs reiterated Bangladesh’s invitation to India for the 9th GFMD Summit in December 2016 in Dhaka and briefed him on the proposal made by Bangladesh Prime Minister for a Global Compact on Migration for the welfare of migrant workers.
The two ministers agreed to work together for greater welfare of migrant workers from Bangladesh and India in different parts of the world.
ShahriarAlam briefed the Indian Minister about Bangladesh’s ASEAN Dialogue Partner aspirations and sought support of India, already an ASEAN Dialogue Partner, in facilitating Bangladesh’s bid.
Recalling his tour of duty in Chittagong during Bangladesh’s War of Liberation in 1971, General Singh assured the Bangladesh Minister that as in 1971, India would continue to support Bangladesh in its efforts towards countering terrorism, regional connectivity and its ASEAN Dialogue Partnership bid.
