UNB, New Delhi :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her optimism about the long-pending Teesta water-sharing deal with next-door neighbour India.
“I’m very much optimistic,” she said responding to a query from an Indian journalist at a reception hosted by Bangladesh High Commission in honour of the Prime Minister.
PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the programme.
Mentioning that Chief Minister of West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee is now in New Delhi, Sheikh Hasina said, “I’ll talk to her regarding the matter.”
She also said Bangladesh wants to build the Ganges Barrage taking assistance from India. “It’ll be beneficial for both the countries,” she said.
Responding to another question on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receiving her at the airport breaking the protocol, Sheikh Hasina said she was very much impressed with such gesture from her counterpart. “He (Modi) came here to receive me although he had numerous engagements,” she said. Diplomats from various countries and eminent Indian citizens attended the reception. Earlier, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi in the afternoon.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Ihsanul Karim said Sheikh Hasina recalled the memories of her stay in New Delhi after the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975. She also presented a copy each of the two autobiographies of Bangabandhu-The Unfinished Memoirs and Karagarer Rojnamcha-to Sushma Swaraj. Earlier on Friday noon breaking the protocol, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina when she arrived here on a four-day official visit that will see her signing a host of bilateral deals between Bangladesh and India.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage, arrived at Air Force Station, Palam, New Delhi at 12:05 pm (local time).
On her arrival, the Indian Prime Minister along with Indian State Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo and High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India Syed Moazzem Ali welcomed the Prime Minister there. Modi welcomed Hasina with a bouquet.
Earlier, Modi made the personal gesture beyond protocol for a few world leaders, including then US President Barack Obama and the Saudi King, when they visited India.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her optimism about the long-pending Teesta water-sharing deal with next-door neighbour India.
“I’m very much optimistic,” she said responding to a query from an Indian journalist at a reception hosted by Bangladesh High Commission in honour of the Prime Minister.
PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters after the programme.
Mentioning that Chief Minister of West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee is now in New Delhi, Sheikh Hasina said, “I’ll talk to her regarding the matter.”
She also said Bangladesh wants to build the Ganges Barrage taking assistance from India. “It’ll be beneficial for both the countries,” she said.
Responding to another question on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi receiving her at the airport breaking the protocol, Sheikh Hasina said she was very much impressed with such gesture from her counterpart. “He (Modi) came here to receive me although he had numerous engagements,” she said. Diplomats from various countries and eminent Indian citizens attended the reception. Earlier, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi in the afternoon.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Ihsanul Karim said Sheikh Hasina recalled the memories of her stay in New Delhi after the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of his family members on August 15, 1975. She also presented a copy each of the two autobiographies of Bangabandhu-The Unfinished Memoirs and Karagarer Rojnamcha-to Sushma Swaraj. Earlier on Friday noon breaking the protocol, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina when she arrived here on a four-day official visit that will see her signing a host of bilateral deals between Bangladesh and India.
A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage, arrived at Air Force Station, Palam, New Delhi at 12:05 pm (local time).
On her arrival, the Indian Prime Minister along with Indian State Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Babul Supriyo and High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India Syed Moazzem Ali welcomed the Prime Minister there. Modi welcomed Hasina with a bouquet.
Earlier, Modi made the personal gesture beyond protocol for a few world leaders, including then US President Barack Obama and the Saudi King, when they visited India.
