New Delhi, July 4 (bdnews24.com)—India's prime minister Manmohan Singh will visit Bangladesh from Sept 6-7 at the invitation of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, its external affairs ministry has confirmed.
He will come to Dhaka one and a half years after Hasina visited New Delhi in Jan 2010.
The much-expected tour will take place after Manmohan's off-the-record remarks on a possible shift in Bangladesh's political landscape that have touched off debates and may embarrassed diplomats in both countries.
The visit is expected to infuse fresh dynamism into the relations between the two countries, the Bangladesh foreign ministry said in a press statement in Dhaka on Monday.
The two sides have been working towards making the visit by the Indian prime minister a successful and a fruitful one.
During the visit, the two prime ministers are expected to discuss the entire range of bilateral issues including cooperation in trade, connectivity, water resources management, power, land boundary demarcation, border management, security, culture, education and people-to-people contact.
They will take stock of the implementation of the decisions taken during Hasina's and will provide guidance for further widening and deepening of the relations, it said.
The two sides will be consulting further to work out the details of the visit of the Indian prime minister, the statement added.
Dhaka is set to play host to a number of dignitaries from Delhi.
President of India's ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, is scheduled to be in Dhaka on July 25 next to attend a special conference on disabled and autistic children.
Gandhi, who also chairs the ruling United Progressive Alliance, accepted an invitation from Hasina to attend the conference.
India's external affairs minister S M Krishna is due to reach Dhaka on July 6 next for a visit.
Water resources minister Salman Khurshid may also visit Dhaka soon for a meeting with his counterpart Ramesh Chandra Sen. Sen and Khurshid are expected to give final touches to an interim agreement on sharing of water of Teesta.
A top aide to the prime minister on Sunday said he believed the Indian premier will surely communicate with Hasina to explain his controversial remarks on Bangladesh.
"I have no doubt that Manmohan Singh will privately communicate with the prime minister (Sheikh Hasina) and explain his remarks," international affairs advisor Gowher Rizvi told bdnews24.com in an exclusive interview on Sunday.
Manmohan at a meeting with senior newspaper editors said on Wednesday: "Our relations (with Bangladesh) are quite good. But we must reckon that at least 25 percent of the population of Bangladesh swears by the Jamaat-e-Islami and they are very anti-Indian, and they are in the clutches, many times, of the ISI."
The comments have caused a clamour not only in Bangladesh, but also in home country where former diplomats who had served in Dhaka dismissed the remarks as irresponsible.
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He will come to Dhaka one and a half years after Hasina visited New Delhi in Jan 2010.
The much-expected tour will take place after Manmohan's off-the-record remarks on a possible shift in Bangladesh's political landscape that have touched off debates and may embarrassed diplomats in both countries.
The visit is expected to infuse fresh dynamism into the relations between the two countries, the Bangladesh foreign ministry said in a press statement in Dhaka on Monday.
The two sides have been working towards making the visit by the Indian prime minister a successful and a fruitful one.
During the visit, the two prime ministers are expected to discuss the entire range of bilateral issues including cooperation in trade, connectivity, water resources management, power, land boundary demarcation, border management, security, culture, education and people-to-people contact.
They will take stock of the implementation of the decisions taken during Hasina's and will provide guidance for further widening and deepening of the relations, it said.
The two sides will be consulting further to work out the details of the visit of the Indian prime minister, the statement added.
Dhaka is set to play host to a number of dignitaries from Delhi.
President of India's ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, is scheduled to be in Dhaka on July 25 next to attend a special conference on disabled and autistic children.
Gandhi, who also chairs the ruling United Progressive Alliance, accepted an invitation from Hasina to attend the conference.
India's external affairs minister S M Krishna is due to reach Dhaka on July 6 next for a visit.
Water resources minister Salman Khurshid may also visit Dhaka soon for a meeting with his counterpart Ramesh Chandra Sen. Sen and Khurshid are expected to give final touches to an interim agreement on sharing of water of Teesta.
A top aide to the prime minister on Sunday said he believed the Indian premier will surely communicate with Hasina to explain his controversial remarks on Bangladesh.
"I have no doubt that Manmohan Singh will privately communicate with the prime minister (Sheikh Hasina) and explain his remarks," international affairs advisor Gowher Rizvi told bdnews24.com in an exclusive interview on Sunday.
Manmohan at a meeting with senior newspaper editors said on Wednesday: "Our relations (with Bangladesh) are quite good. But we must reckon that at least 25 percent of the population of Bangladesh swears by the Jamaat-e-Islami and they are very anti-Indian, and they are in the clutches, many times, of the ISI."
The comments have caused a clamour not only in Bangladesh, but also in home country where former diplomats who had served in Dhaka dismissed the remarks as irresponsible.
News Source:
http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=200041&cid=2
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