Hasina-Manmohan talks on Jan 11
Friday, 25 December 2009
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for India on the night of January 10 to hold crucial summit talks with her Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on January 11 for updating the entire gamut of bilateral ties between the two next-door neighbours, reports UNB.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, announcing the date of the Prime Minister's deferred tour of Delhi, told reporters Thursday that details of the programmes were being worked out.
The upcoming Hasina-Manmohan formal talks are seen significant in redefining the Bangladesh-India bilateral relations in the changed political perspectives both in Dhaka and Delhi.
Several accords are likely to be signed during the visit to allow transportation of India's Over Dimensional Consignments for installing a power plant in Tripura, strengthen Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI) to remove hassle of certification of Bangladeshi export goods and facilitating Bangladesh-Nepal and Bangladesh-Bhutan transit through India.
As Bangladesh focuses on the sharing of Teesta River waters during the visit, the water resources secretary-level talks will be held in Dhaka on January 3 to do the spadework.
Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes said that, if possible, the minister-level Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting would be arranged before the PM's visit in a bid to reach an agreement on the sharing of the Teesta flows - -one of a number of longstanding issues between the two countries, some dating back to the 1947 partition of the subcontinent at the end of the colonial British rule.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, announcing the date of the Prime Minister's deferred tour of Delhi, told reporters Thursday that details of the programmes were being worked out.
The upcoming Hasina-Manmohan formal talks are seen significant in redefining the Bangladesh-India bilateral relations in the changed political perspectives both in Dhaka and Delhi.
Several accords are likely to be signed during the visit to allow transportation of India's Over Dimensional Consignments for installing a power plant in Tripura, strengthen Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institute (BSTI) to remove hassle of certification of Bangladeshi export goods and facilitating Bangladesh-Nepal and Bangladesh-Bhutan transit through India.
As Bangladesh focuses on the sharing of Teesta River waters during the visit, the water resources secretary-level talks will be held in Dhaka on January 3 to do the spadework.
Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes said that, if possible, the minister-level Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting would be arranged before the PM's visit in a bid to reach an agreement on the sharing of the Teesta flows - -one of a number of longstanding issues between the two countries, some dating back to the 1947 partition of the subcontinent at the end of the colonial British rule.