Sushma\\\'s visit to usher in new horizon: Mahmood

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said on Sunday a new horizon in Bangladesh-India relations would usher in with the visit of Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, report agencies.
"We hope a new horizon in Bangladesh-India relations will open up through her visit," he told reporters after attending a function at East West University in the city.
The minister said a wide range of bilateral issues would be discussed during Sushma's Dhaka visit.
Sushma arrives in Dhaka on June 25 on a three-day 'goodwill visit' to Bangladesh.
This is going to be Swaraj's first stand-alone visit abroad as the External Affairs Minister and reflects the importance that India attaches to its bilateral relationship with Bangladesh, a close friend and neighbour, said the Indian External Affairs Ministry.
The visit will take place at the invitation of her Bangladesh counterpart Mr Ali.
During her stay in Dhaka, Sushma will meet President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
She would also deliver a lecture on Bangladesh-India relations at an event to be organised by the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS).
The Indian side expressed the hope that the visit will provide a further momentum to the close and friendly relationship between the two countries.
Earlier on May 27, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured Bangladesh of looking into two long-pending issues - Teesta water sharing deal and Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) when Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury met him at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministry on the day reconfirmed the schedule of Sushma Swaraj's three-day maiden visit to Dhaka from June 25, a day after her office said she would be visiting Bangladesh on invitation from her counterpart.