Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrives in Dhaka on Monday to discuss bilateral issues, reports UNB.
His visit is taking place at the invitation of Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. Confirming Jaishankar’s Dhaka visit, a diplomat told media that he will be leaving Dhaka on August 21.
Sources said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Delhi in October. During Jaishankar’s visit to Dhaka, the Prime Minister’s forthcoming visit to Delhi may also be finalised.
Earlier, the Foreign Minister. AK Abdul Momen said Jayashankar’s visit to Dhaka would be a “courtesy trip”. He was already invited and he accepted the invitation.
This will be the first visit of the neighbouring country’s foreign minister to Dhaka after the BJP-led government came to power for the second consecutive term.
India is a leading development partner of Bangladesh and it has extended concessional lines of credit (LOC) totalling around the US$ 8 billion.
Dr Momen said he will discuss the LOC projects, expenditures and barriers to implementation of those projects, if any, and identify reasons to expedite the implementation process.
Meanwhile, 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.
She will attend India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum with the theme ‘Innovating for India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World’ to be held in New Delhi on October 3-4, a diplomatic source told.
