City Desk :
Major General Abdullah Shamal, Chief of Defense Staff of the Maldives visiting Bangladesh paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff General Aziz Ahmed at the Army Headquarters on Thursday.
During the meeting, they exchanged greetings and discussed various issues related to the existing good relations between the armed forces of the two countries and mutual cooperation in the future, said a press release.
The talks focused on conducting joint training with the participation of the armies from both the countries, exchanging expertise on defense, mutual defense cooperation, goodwill visits and providing medical assistance to combat the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic.
Before meeting the Chief of Army Staff in the morning, the Chief of Defense Staff of the Maldives paid homage to the memory of the heroic martyrs of the great war of independence of Bangladesh by laying a wreath at Shikha Anirban in Dhaka Cantonment.
He was then given a Guard of Honour by Bangladesh Army at Senakunja in the city. At the end of the Guard of Honour, Major General Abdullah Shamal planted a tree on Senakunja premises.
