Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India in October next to discuss bilateral issues, including the ones related to common rivers, to take the growing relations between Bangladesh and India forward.
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit Bangladesh this month, most likely on August 20-21, when the date of Sheikh Hasina’s India visit will be finalised, reports UNB.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen disclosed this while talking to a small group of journalists at his office on Sunday.
The two countries will discuss all the bilateral, regional and international issues, with a greater focus on water sharing of 54 common rivers.
Dr Momen also hinted that there will be discussions on the 54 common rivers without elaborating the long-pending Teesta water-sharing issue.
When his attention was drawn to media reports that India seeks land from Bangladesh for the expansion of Agartala Airport in Tripura which was renamed as Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport, Dr Momen said, “I didn’t get any letter…. I’ve no knowledge about it.”
He also mentioned that Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan will visit India and he may discuss it. “We didn’t get any letter in this regard.”
Responding to another question on Bangabandhu’s killers, the Foreign Minister expressed his hope to bring back at least one or two killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman before the celebrations of his birth centenary.