Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina India Visit: Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, who is being visited four days to India, met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday after his arrival at Rashthapati Bhavan. He arrived in Delhi on Monday and was welcomed by Darshana Jardosh, Minister of State for textiles and trains in New Delhi. He also met with Foreign Minister S Jaisankar to discuss the problems of bilateral interest and visited Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, a prominent pilgrimage tourist attraction in Delhi.
Bangladesh is the main partner under the “First Environment” policy in India. Under the leadership of Modi and Sheikh Hasina, respectively, India and Bangladesh have obtained real results in regions including settling in land and demarcation of maritime boundaries, security, connectivity, development cooperation, cultural exchange, power and energy, trade and trade , blue economy, defense.
This visit was his first visit after the bilateral relations between the two countries touched their 50th year in 2021.
Today, later in the evening Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina will call on President Droupadi Murmu & Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar: Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra pic.twitter.com/cmhA7XPl1N
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India was the biggest market for Bangladesh. During a speech together with PM Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, Modi said, “To further accelerate this progress, we will soon begin a discussion about a bilateral economic comprehensive partnership agreement.”
54 rivers flow through the Indian-Bangladesh border & are related to the livelihoods of people in both countries. Today, we have signed an important agreement regarding the distribution of Kushiyara River water, “said Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a joint statement with PM Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, in Delhi.
We have expanded our cooperation about flood mitigation. We have shared real-time data about flooding with Bangladesh & have also discussed terrorism. It is very important, that we together face the power that is hostile to us: PM Modi
Our main focus is to develop our people’s federation, poverty alleviation, and economy. With all these problems, I feel that our two countries are working together so that people are not only in India and Bangladesh but throughout South Asia can get a better life. That’s our main focus.
I hope this will be a very useful discussion and our main goal – to develop economically and also meet the basic needs of our people – what we can do. With friendship, you can solve any problem. So, we always do that: PM Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina in Rashtrapati Bhavan
India is our friend. Every time I come to India, it is a pleasure for me, especially because we always remember the contributions made by India during our liberation war. We have a friendly relationship, we are working with each other, “said PM Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina at Rashtrapati Bhavan.