DHAKA: India and Bangladesh sign five MoUs to further enhance bilateral ties

DHAKA: India and Bangladesh recently signed
five MoUs covering a number of areas of bilateral cooperation to further
enhance ties during Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Dhaka.

Earlier today, PM Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina held delegation-level
talks and discussed the progress achieved in areas like connectivity, energy
and trade.

External affairs spokesperson
Arindam Bagchi said India attaches the highest priority to Bangladesh under its
Neighbourhood First Policy.

“PM Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina discussed the
progress achieved in areas of health, trade, connectivity, energy,
developmental cooperation and many more,” Arindam Bagchi said in a tweet.
Bangladesh Prime Minister also presented a gold and a silver coin released on
the occasion of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to PM
Modi.

The Prime Minister, on the second day of his two-day visit to Bangladesh,
addressed the Matua community members after offering prayers at their temple in
Gopalganj’s Orakandi – the birthplace of Hindu mystic figure and community’s
spiritual guru Harichand Thakur.

“Both India and Bangladesh
want to see the world progressing through their own progress. Both the nations
want to see stability, love, and peace in the world instead of instability,
terror and unrest,” he said.

He also paid tribute at the Mausoleum of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in
Tungipara.
Modi’s visit is taking place at a time Bangladesh is commemorating Mujib
Borsho, the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years of the
country’s war of liberation. The two countries are also celebrating 50 years of
the establishment of diplomatic ties.