Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma on Sunday said his country would continue to seek a stable, positive, and constructive relationship with Bangladesh in which people of both countries are the main stakeholders.
He made the remarks in a seminar at Bay of Bengal Conversation (BOBC) at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka.
The Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) organised the BOBC bringing 200 speakers together from 80 countries around the world.
Highlighting the importance of the bilateral ties, the high commissioner stressed that India takes a long-term view of its relations with Bangladesh and believes that the peace, security, progress, and prosperity of the two countries are interlinked.
He underlined the continued progress in trade, transport, energy connectivity, and people-to-people engagements as a reflection of multifaceted ties, in which the reality of interdependence and mutual benefit would keep reasserting itself, regardless of political changes.
Pranay Verma cited the launch of 40MW power transmission from Nepal to Bangladesh through the Indian grid, and the augmentation of infrastructure at the Petrapole-Benapole Integrated Check Post, both within this month itself, as examples of continued progress in bilateral exchanges.
He also described India-Bangladesh cooperation as an anchor for regional integration envisaged under architectures such as the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation).
The high commissioner expressed India’s commitment to work together with the government and people of Bangladesh to fulfill shared aspirations for peace, security, and development, and to ensure that partnership continues to bring benefit to the common people on both sides.
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