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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed interest in joining the India-Myanmar-Thailand highway. He expressed India’s interest in the trilateral road at a virtual summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and sought support from India.
A joint statement issued by the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the conference said that she (Sheikh Hasina) expressed great interest in the Indo-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway project under construction and India’s support for the Bangladesh’s participation in the project to improve connectivity between South and Southeast Asia. Dear.
He further said that India has also requested Bangladesh to allow communication from West Bengal (Hili) to Meghalaya (Mahendraganj) via Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina and Modi welcomed the recent initiative under the Inland Trade and Transport Protocol (PIWTT) to improve ongoing bilateral communication, including the pilot transport of Indian goods from Kolkata to Agartala via Kolkata. The prime ministers of the two countries agreed to speed up the shipment of Indian goods through the ports of Chittagong and Mongla.
They agreed to accelerate the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal Vehicle Agreement (BBIN) to facilitate the transportation of passengers and goods between the two countries. Although the movement of goods and passengers between Bangladesh, India and Nepal has started, Bhutan will be able to join later.
In addition, Bangladesh requested India to start regular voyages through land ports soon.
The statement added: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised Bangladesh’s generosity in providing shelter and humanitarian assistance to approximately one million people forcibly displaced from Myanmar’s Rakhine State.” The two Prime Ministers stressed the importance of their safe, swift and lasting return.
Sheikh Hasina today congratulated India on becoming a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council and hopes that India will play a supporting role in the repatriation of Rohingya to Myanmar.
