Indian PM Narendra Modi handing over main steering
wheel of INS Vikrant to Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office in
Dhaka Saturday, June 6, 2015.
Saying that Indian investments in Bangladesh will help bridge the
trade gap between the countries, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
today promised that his country will help Bangladesh make trade smoother
and easier.
“People in India admire your nation's progress despite challenges. We want you to succeed in your Mission 2021 & 2041,” the visiting Indian premier said in his statement to the media this evening.
Saying that he was deeply honoured and touched by “your special gestures for my visit”, he said, “For me, there is the wonderful feeling of visiting a close neighbour.”
He stressed the relationship between Bangladesh and India as of “great importance for us and our region” and said: “We are successful fellow travellers on the road to development.
“We stand at a moment of huge opportunity in our relationship. Prime Minister Hasina and I recognise that.”
Regarding the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement, which India ratified recently, he said: “We have resolved a question that has lingered since Independence. Our two nations have a settled boundary.”
Bangladesh and India are not just neighbours but “nations bound by the threads of history, religion, culture, language and kinship & a passion 4 cricket”, he said.
Talking on the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala and Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati bus
services, Modi said the two bus services would connect citizens of the
two countries more easily and “our two nations more closely”.
“People in India admire your nation's progress despite challenges. We want you to succeed in your Mission 2021 & 2041,” the visiting Indian premier said in his statement to the media this evening.
Saying that he was deeply honoured and touched by “your special gestures for my visit”, he said, “For me, there is the wonderful feeling of visiting a close neighbour.”
He stressed the relationship between Bangladesh and India as of “great importance for us and our region” and said: “We are successful fellow travellers on the road to development.
“We stand at a moment of huge opportunity in our relationship. Prime Minister Hasina and I recognise that.”
Regarding the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement, which India ratified recently, he said: “We have resolved a question that has lingered since Independence. Our two nations have a settled boundary.”
Bangladesh and India are not just neighbours but “nations bound by the threads of history, religion, culture, language and kinship & a passion 4 cricket”, he said.
