The foreign minister gave the details of his visit to India

  newsfocusbd : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their bilateral meeting expressed their determination to take the relations between the two countries to new heights in the last decade through political integration, opening up new areas of cooperation and cooperation between the governments of the two countries consisting of the people's 'Fresh Mandate' or Navara.

The foreign minister

On Saturday (June 22) afternoon, the foreign minister and joint general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League told reporters at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India. Hasan Mahmud.

In this briefing before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's meeting with the President and Vice President of India this evening, he said that after winning the recently concluded elections in India and forming the government for the third consecutive time under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attending the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 9, again at his invitation. The visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on June 21-22 was very successful as the first bilateral visit of the Prime Minister in a very short period of time.

The Foreign Minister said, "The Prime Ministers of the two countries along with their cabinet members and officials held a private meeting after the bilateral discussions as a team. In the meeting, all bilateral issues were discussed in a very sincere atmosphere. After that, the Prime Minister of India invited the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for lunch.

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Special importance in cooperation in 'connectivity', demarcation of borders, river management, power sector:

Referring to the detailed discussion on connectivity between the two countries, the foreign minister said, there was a detailed discussion about their interest and our progress regarding the use of Chittagong and Mongla ports for the North-East of India, especially the eastern region.

Stating that there is no lack of political consensus between the two countries to reduce the border killings to zero, Hasan said, discussions have been held to reduce the incidents that are still happening.

Besides, there are 54 common rivers between Bangladesh and India. The Minister of Foreign Affairs also mentioned the importance of discussions on overall management including naval protection, Teesta river management, climate change mitigation, flood disaster management and environmental protection.

He said, in the bilateral meeting, the Prime Minister of India discussed with them the expansion of cooperation in the power sector, assistance in importing hydropower from Nepal and Bhutan through India and how assistance can be obtained from the new transmission line of 3,000 MW electricity that India is building.

At this time, we also discussed about saving specific quota for Bangladesh in import of daily necessities including onion, oil, wheat, sugar and not stopping the import, said Hashan.

Support in multilateral forums:

The foreign minister also said that we have sought India's support for any post of BRICS member or partner and they have responded positively. Besides, discussions on strengthening the position in multilateral forums including BIMSTEC, Indian Ocean Rim Association, increasing economic cooperation were also positive.

He said that China's role in the discussion on the repatriation of about 1.3 million Rohingya sheltered in Bangladesh to Myanmar has also come. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said she would discuss it during her visit to China.

Hashan Mahmud, in response to journalists' questions about visas, said that India issues about two million visas to Bangladeshis annually, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given new instructions to their missions to speed up medical visas and prevent unnecessary delays in other visas.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Mustafizur Rahman and Prime Minister's Press Secretary Naemul Islam Khan were with the Foreign Minister during the briefing.