Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Bangladesh chief advisor Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of the sixth BIMSTEC Summit in Thailand’s Bangkok on Friday.
The bilateral assembly comes after Dhaka had requested a bilateral assembly on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit to kind out variations, however Modi’s schedule in Thailand didn’t point out the requested assembly.
The 2 nations noticed tensions in ties as a result of variations over the alleged cases of violence focusing on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh and India’s choice to grant asylum to Sheikh Hasina.
Tensions in bilateral ties additionally escalated after Yunus’s touch upon India’s northeastern states throughout his go to to the Boao Discussion board for Asia (BFA) annual convention in China.
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Earlier, a PTI report advised that Modi would doubtless meet Yunus. On Thursday, the prime minister and Yunus have been seated collectively at a dinner hosted on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit.
The talks additionally mark the primary highest stage of engagement with the interim authorities after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India and sought asylum in August final yr. The previous prime minister fled Bangladesh following a large student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s 16-year regime.
Yunus has claimed that Dhaka despatched “formal letters” to India in search of Hasina’s extradition to face a authorized trial however obtained no official response from New Delhi.
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In a letter to Yunus final month, PM Modi stated, “India stays dedicated to advancing its partnership with Bangladesh, pushed by the widespread aspirations for peace, stability, and prosperity, and primarily based on mutual sensitivity to one another’s pursuits and considerations.”
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Financial Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional group of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian nations with a complete inhabitants of 1.73 billion individuals and a mixed GDP of US$5.2 trillion. Thailand is the present chairman of the grouping. The present summit was the primary bodily assembly of the leaders because the 4th BIMSTEC Summit in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2018.
