The issue of Bangladesh came up when US President Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the former’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, Daily Sun reports.
There was also an exchange of views between Modi and Biden about the situation in Bangladesh, he said at a media briefing in Washington in reply to a question if Bangladesh came up for discussions between the two leaders and if he could share the contours of the discussion.
“Look, as I said, these discussions cover subjects that are in the region. They may be of bilateral interest to one party or the other, but they do have significance beyond the region as well. In this context, a number of situations came up for discussion. Bangladesh also figured in the discussions and there was an exchange of views with regard to the situation there,” the foreign secretary said without elaborating further.
This was the first time that Bangladesh figured in the discussions between Modi and Biden in their first in-person bilateral meeting since the change of guard in that country after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina as the prime minister on August 5 in the face of the student movement and her escape to India.
The Modi-Biden sharing views on Bangladesh came in the backdrop of reports that the chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, Prof Muhammad Yunus, may meet Biden later this week.
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