Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin has urged his visiting Indian counterpart Vikram Misri to refrain from interfering in any internal matters of Bangladesh.
“Stop pushing your nose into the internal affairs of Bangladesh,” Jashim categorically told Vikram Misri during the meeting held in Dhaka on Monday.
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country and took shelter in India in the face of the July-August mass upsurge and since then the bilateral relationship between the two countries has been facing a setback.
Later, some people in India carried out attacks on the Bangladesh High Commission in Agartala. Apart from this, a section of news outlets have started publishing misleading news about religious persecution in Bangladesh.
In this worsening situation, the Indian Foreign Secretary visited Dhaka on Monday and held meetings with authorities concerned to address the issue.
“As Bangladesh does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, so India has been told, we do not want their interference,” Jashim Uddin told Misri during the meeting.
Misri was also informed that the people of Bangladesh do not appreciate the statements made by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, Jashim Uddin said while talking to the media after the meeting.
Jashim also requested his Indian counterpart to strengthen security in and around the Bangladeshi missions in India.
“We admit that a ground of mistrust has been created in the bilateral relationship between the two countries. Today’s meeting is part of an effort to remove the crisis of trust. We are clearing our own positions like an opened book,” Jashim Uddin said.
About India’s propaganda on religious persecution in Bangladesh, Jashin Uddin said he called upon Misri to send their representatives to visit Bangladesh to gather firsthand reports in this regard.
“We made our position strongly clear. I hope all misunderstanding in this regard will put an end through today’s meeting,” he expressed his optimism.
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