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India envoy Dinesh Trivedi meets PM Modi after Dhaka talks
India and Bangladesh are two neighboring countries that want to be good friends.
Dinesh Trivedi is India's most important helper in Bangladesh.
He visited Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, and talked to its leaders.
He met Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, and two other important leaders.
Then he flew back to India's capital, New Delhi, to talk to India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
Trivedi asked Modi for ideas on how to make the friendship between the two countries even stronger.
India said it wants to work with Bangladesh in a friendly, positive way.
The leaders also talked about keeping people safe together, which is called security cooperation.
There was also talk about a former Bangladesh leader, Sheikh Hasina, and some hard feelings between the two countries.
Both countries want to keep talking and build a strong relationship together.
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Tuesday, a day after returning from Dhaka.
Trivedi sought Modi's guidance on strengthening the 'multifaceted and enduring' India-Bangladesh bilateral relationship in a constructive, people-centric manner.
During his Dhaka visit, Trivedi held separate meetings with Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman, Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman, and Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed.
Trivedi conveyed greetings from PM Modi and expressed India's willingness to work with Bangladesh in a 'positive, constructive and forward-looking' manner.
Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman raised the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and underlined the need to create a 'conducive environment' for bilateral ties.
- Who
- Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi after holding meetings in Dhaka with Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman, and Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed.
- What
- High-level discussions on strengthening India-Bangladesh relations, security cooperation, and a people-centric approach to bilateral ties, including Bangladesh's request to extradite ousted PM Sheikh Hasina.
- Where
- New Delhi, India, and Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- When
- The Modi meeting took place on Tuesday; Trivedi's Dhaka meetings were held on Sunday and Monday.
- Why
- To maintain high-level diplomatic engagement and strengthen bilateral ties under Bangladesh's new political dispensation, following tensions over Sheikh Hasina's remarks in India.
Bangladesh's stance
India's stance
Extradition of Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh's stance
Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman raised the issue of extraditing ousted PM Sheikh Hasina with Trivedi, after her remarks in India angered Dhaka, and stressed the need to 'create a conducive environment' to advance bilateral relations.
India's stance
India's High Commissioner sought PM Modi's guidance on building an 'enduring', people-centric relationship and expressed willingness to work with Bangladesh in a 'positive, constructive and forward-looking' manner, without publicly commenting on the extradition request.
Key facts
- Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh
- Dinesh Trivedi
- Meeting with PM Modi
- Tuesday, New Delhi
- Dhaka meetings
- Three separate meetings with Bangladeshi leadership on Sunday and Monday
- Bangladesh Prime Minister
- Tarique Rahman
- Bangladesh Foreign Minister
- Khalilur Rahman
- Bangladesh Home Minister
- Salahuddin Ahmed
- Focus of talks
- Bilateral relations, security cooperation, people-centric cooperation
- Key issue raised
- Extradition of ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Quotes
Diplomatic source in New Delhi
Unnamed diplomatic source reporting the meeting
“"Yes, he had the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. They discussed Bangladesh-India relations,"”
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