Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina lauded her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi led initiative towards rescuing students of her country who were stuck in Eastern Europe following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
In a television interaction with South Asia’s leading multimedia news agency ANI, Sheikh Hasina, who is set to visit India on Monday, praised the Modi government's gesture of providing Covid-19 vaccines to neighboring countries under its Vaccine Maitri programme when the pandemic was fast-spreading.
She emphasized on closer cooperation between the two next door neighbors.
She marked out two areas for special praise where the Indian government's support helped Bangladeshi citizens. One of these was the evacuation of Bangladesh students, who like many Indians, were stuck in Ukraine and its neighbouring countries after the outbreak of the conflict.
"I really would like to express my thanks to the Prime Minister that during this war between Russia and Ukraine, many of our students were just stuck and they came to Poland to shelter. But when you evacuate your students, Indian students, they also brought our students back home. So it is really... You have shown a clearly friendly gesture. I thank the Prime Minister for this initiative," Sheikh Hasina said.
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