India and Bangladesh will on Monday resume official-level talks after two years on forging closer economic cooperation and discuss a range of issues that have either come up at the political level or held in abeyance.
Dialogues after a hiatus of two years
DHAKA: India and Bangladesh will on Monday resume official-level talks after two years on forging closer economic cooperation and discuss a range of issues that have either come up at the political level or held in abeyance.
Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon arrived in Dhaka on Sunday for talks for which the ground was prepared in April when Bangladesh chief advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
"India is interested in Bangladesh's peaceful, democratic and stable development as the two neighbours have a "shared destiny," Menon said in Dhaka on Sunday.
Menon was received by Bangladesh's foreign secretary in-charge Touhid Hossain at Zia International Airport.
"During the foreign office consultations with Hossain, we intend to explore how we can further strengthen our bilateral cooperation and discuss other matters of mutual interest," the Indian foreign secretary said.
"We must move our bilateral relations to an 'irreversible higher trajectory'," Menon told newspersons, quoting Indian external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee as saying during his visit to Dhaka last February.
The Bangladesh foreign secretary in-charge earlier told the official BBS news agency that "the entire gamut of bilateral relations is expected to be discussed at the talks" with his Indian counterpart.
Dhaka and New Delhi are also expected to sign a memorandum of understanding to remove non-tariff barriers in bilateral trades at the fag end of Menon's visit.
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