Indian Foreign Secretary on Bangla visit

Anisur Rahman
Dhaka, Nov 13 (PTI) Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao
will pay a two-day visit to Bangladesh from Saturday, with
preparations for premier Sheikh Hasina's planned India tour
next month high on the agenda.

"She is mainly coming to Dhaka at the invitation of
Bangladesh's foreign secretary Mjarul Quayes for preparatory
talks ahead of the Prime Minister's visit," a Foreign Ministry
spokesman told PTI here.
An Indian high commission spokesman in Dhaka said the
"much anticipated" visit of Hasina was to dominate the talks
though the two foreign secretaries were also expected to
discuss the whole gamut of the bilateral ties.
Rao would be in Dhaka in her first visit to Bangladesh
since she assumed the office of the top bureaucrat in the
External Affairs Ministry in August this year.
The Foreign Ministry officials said during the two-day
tour, Rao would hold bilateral talks with her counterpart
Quayes, meet Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and call on Hasina and
Khaleda Zia of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Her visit comes a day after Foreign Minister Dipu Moni
said the premier was likely to go to New Delhi on a three-day
official visit beginning on December 19 when Bangladesh and
India were likely to finalise bilateral agreements on various
issues including mutual transit facilities. (More) PTI AR
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