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Dhaka: Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Ajit Singh paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister’s Defence Adviser Brigadier General (Retd.) Dr. A.K.M. Shamsul Islam.
The meeting was held on Monday at the office of the Defence Adviser at the Armed Forces Division in Dhaka Cantonment. During the meeting, the Defence Adviser and the Canadian High Commissioner exchanged greetings and recalled the longstanding cordial and excellent bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Canada.
During the cordial discussion, the two sides held detailed exchanges on potential areas of Canadian cooperation in the overall modernisation and capacity-building of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
Both sides expressed a highly positive outlook on further strengthening cooperation in military technology exchange, strategic defence cooperation, joint training, disaster management, and UN peacekeeping operations.
They also discussed ways to elevate the existing defence and diplomatic relations between the two countries to a new level.
At the end of the meeting, both representatives expressed hope that bilateral initiatives would further strengthen and consolidate the friendly relations and defence cooperation between Bangladesh and Canada in the days ahead.
