Hasina-Modi summit likely on March 27 in Dhaka


FE Team | Published: January 31, 2021 17:33:09 | Updated: January 31, 2021 21:53:21


Hasina-Modi summit likely on March 27 in Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are likely to hold a meeting in Dhaka on March 27 to take forward the relations between the two countries.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen gave the information during a briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday afternoon, reports UNB.

The Indian prime minister is expected to visit Bangladesh in March to join the celebration of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh's independence.

The foreign secretary said Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar is likely to visit Bangladesh before the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He informed that Bangladesh and India will hold four Secretary-level meetings before the summit meeting between the two prime ministers.

The meeting between the water resources secretaries of the two countries will be held in New Delhi while commerce secretary-level, home secretary-level and shipping secretary-level talks will be held in Dhaka.

The two countries are currently working on four to five MoUs to be signed during the summit and there is a possibility to increase the number of bilateral documents with inputs from four secretary-level meetings.

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