Bangladesh PM Hasina affords Chittagong Port to be used by India as EAM Jaishankar calls on her

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday referred to as on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who provided her nation’s major seaport – Chittagong Port – to India’s northeastern states like Assam and Tripura to reinforce connectivity between the 2 neighbours.

Jaishankar, who arrived right here on Thursday on a short official go to, handed over an invite to Hasina on her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s behalf to go to New Delhi.

“Thank Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her warm reception. Conveyed personal greetings of PM @narendramodi. Our bilateral relations are moving from strength to strength under the guidance of the two leaders,” Jaishankar tweeted.

During the assembly, Prime Minister Hasina mentioned that the 2 nations have to extend connectivity additional, her press secretary Ihsanul Karim informed PTI.

She informed Jaishankar that the improved connectivity was wanted for mutual profit, whereas it could significantly profit India’s northeastern area in utilizing Bangladesh’s southeastern Chittagong port, Karim mentioned.

“If the connectivity is increased, the Indian northeastern states -like Assam and Tripura- can have access to the seaport in Chattogram,” she mentioned.

The Bangladesh premier famous that initiatives have been taken to renew cross-border routes between Bangladesh and India which have been stopped throughout the 1965 India-Pakistan warfare, when Bangladesh was the japanese wing of Pakistan.

Karim mentioned quite a lot of bilateral and worldwide points have been mentioned throughout Prime Minister Hasina’s greater than half an hour-long assembly with Jaishankar.

Jaishankar later held talks together with his Bangladeshi counterpart, AK Abdul Momen, after which collectively briefed the media.

“Dr. Momen and @DrSJaishankar discussed the bilateral issues between Bangladesh and India. They expressed satisfaction about the ongoing Bangladesh-India cooperation, vowed to further strengthen the bilateral ties, stressed on regional stability for socio-economic development as a whole,” the Bangladesh international ministry tweeted.

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Jaishankar mentioned that throughout the talks with Prime Minister Hasina he prolonged Prime Minister Modi’s invitation to her to go to India on the time of her comfort.

“I conveyed to [her] that we stay up for her go to to India at a time of her comfort,” he mentioned, including that quite a lot of points regarding bilateral ties in addition to nationwide and international points got here up as he referred to as on the Bangladesh premier.

Jaishankar, who arrived right here on a short official go to, was obtained on the Bangladesh Air Force Base Bangabandhu by Foreign Minister Momen.

His go to to Bangladesh was geared toward getting ready the grounds for Prime Minister Hasina’s go to to India.

The two nations are anticipated to repair the date of the seventh Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) assembly, which is scheduled to happen in New Delhi.

Jaishankar will depart Dhaka for Bhutan on Friday morning.

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