EAM Jaishankar fulfills Bangladesh’s Hossain, goes over reciprocal connections & BIMSTEC participation–

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar fulfilled Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain on Sunday to talk about reciprocal connections in between both nations and BIMSTEC.

Met Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain of the Interim Government of Bangladesh.

Conversation was concentrated on our reciprocal connection, as likewise on BIMSTEC.

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–Dr S. Jaishankar (@Dr SJaishankar) February 16, 2025

“Met Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain of the Interim Government ofBangladesh The discussion was concentrated on our reciprocal connection, as likewise on BIMSTEC,” the preacher claimed in a message on X.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) consists of 7 nations: Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Bangladesh will certainly be the following chair of the BIMSTEC top, which will certainly occur in Bangkok from April 2 to 4 this year.

Hossain fulfilled Jaishankar on the sidelines of the Indian Ocean Conference in Oman as component of initiatives to stop additional stress in reciprocal connections.

The close connections in between India and Bangladesh came under extreme stress after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, that was required to leave the nation when faced with an enormous anti-government objection in August in 2014.

Nobel Peace laureate Mohammad Yunus concerned power days after Hasina got away to India.

The connections weakened additionally over strikes on minority Hindus in Bangladesh.

There had actually been a wave of cases of physical violence versus Hindus and various other minorities, in addition to strikes on holy places in Bangladesh after Hasina’s ouster that set off solid worries in New Delhi.