UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh and Russia have signed a protocol identifying potential sectors of cooperation and outlining future course of actions between the two countries.
The protocol was signed at the concluding day of the first meeting of the intergovernmental commission (IGC) on trade, economy, scientific and technical cooperation between the two governments held in Moscow from October 22-24. Aiming to forge more economic cooperation, both sides identified the necessity of institutional cooperation and streamlining and simplifying the existing procedures of trade and commerce, said the foreign ministry here on Sunday.
ERD Senior Secretary Shofiqul Azam and Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia and Head of the federal agency for fishery Ivan V Shestakov co-chaired the meeting.
The first session of the Commission encompassed a wide range of areas of cooperation for discussion between Bangladesh and Russia-ranging from trade, investment, power and energy, food, agriculture, fisheries and livestock, science and technology, ICT, education, industry, research and development to manpower recruitment.
Bangladesh and Russia have signed a protocol identifying potential sectors of cooperation and outlining future course of actions between the two countries.
The protocol was signed at the concluding day of the first meeting of the intergovernmental commission (IGC) on trade, economy, scientific and technical cooperation between the two governments held in Moscow from October 22-24. Aiming to forge more economic cooperation, both sides identified the necessity of institutional cooperation and streamlining and simplifying the existing procedures of trade and commerce, said the foreign ministry here on Sunday.
ERD Senior Secretary Shofiqul Azam and Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia and Head of the federal agency for fishery Ivan V Shestakov co-chaired the meeting.
The first session of the Commission encompassed a wide range of areas of cooperation for discussion between Bangladesh and Russia-ranging from trade, investment, power and energy, food, agriculture, fisheries and livestock, science and technology, ICT, education, industry, research and development to manpower recruitment.
