Foreign Affairs Adviser to the interim government Md Touhid Hossain and Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York on 23 September 2024.
Foreign Affairs Adviser to the interim government Md Touhid Hossain and Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York on 23 September 2024.
Bangladesh

Dhaka, Delhi agree to advance bilateral relations

Diplomatic CorrespondentDhaka

Bangladesh and India have agreed to advance bilateral relations on their mutual interests.

The consensus came during a meeting between Foreign Affairs Adviser to the interim government Md Touhid Hossain and Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York on Monday night.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this in a post on X.

“Foreign Affairs Adviser, HE Md. Touhid Hossain and India External Affairs Minister, HE @DrSJaishankar, met at #UNGA79 sidelines and discussed issues of mutual interest between #Bangladesh|#India,” reads the post.

The Dhaka-Delhi bilateral relations felt a strain after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India in face of a student-people movement on 5 August. Since then, this was the first high-level meeting between two countries.

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