The Foreign Minister of Bangladesh has joined the second BIMSTEC Retreat Conference of Foreign Ministers in New Delhi Hasan Mahmud. After visiting China with the Prime Minister, he left Beijing directly for Delhi on Wednesday night and attended the conference on Thursday afternoon.
In this two-day retreat that began on Thursday, the foreign ministers of the BIMSTEC countries discussed various ways to strengthen the BIMSTEC process and make the upcoming 6th BIMSTEC summit successful and fruitful.
Minister of Foreign Affairs participated in the discussion. Hasan Mahmood emphasized on effective cooperation among the regional alliance countries in trade, investment, disaster management, food and energy security, climate change, connectivity and green economy.
In addition to the meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Hasan met the foreign ministers of India and Myanmar and discussed matters of mutual interest.
India’s foreign minister. Discussions were held with S. Jaishankar about maintaining continued facility in importing daily commodities to Bangladesh and sending technical team for Teesta project. On the other hand, Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Than Sui gave a positive response to the start of Rohingya repatriation in the meeting. Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal. Courtesy meeting with Hasan Mahmud.
Notably, Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation or ‘Multisectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation Initiative in the Bay of Bengal Region’ in short BIMSTEC is a regional alliance consisting of seven countries in South and Southeast Asia. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand are members of this alliance created in 1997.
On September 13, 2014, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated BIMSTEC headquarters in Dhaka. The main objective of BIMSTEC is to create an area of mutual cooperation in technical and economic fields between the countries of South and Southeast Asia and the Bay of Bengal. Business, investment, technology, tourism, human resource development, agricultural development, fisheries, communication system, garment and leather industry and many other areas are covered by BIMSTEC.
