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Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will visit New Delhi when the schedules of the prime ministers of Bangladesh and India coincide, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir has said.
He also described India’s decision not to allow a seminar involving leaders of the banned Awami League in New Delhi on August 29 as a positive signal for bilateral relations.
Kabir made the remarks during a briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka on Tuesday.
He said the BNP had governed Bangladesh several times with strong public support and had repeatedly been elected by the people. He described the BNP as a historic political party founded by Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman and said the party had always played a leading role in restoring democracy whenever it was under threat in Bangladesh.
The remarks came after the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) in New Delhi organised a seminar involving several leaders of the banned Awami League. The event was later cancelled after intervention by Delhi Police.
Various reports had circulated in August about a possible visit by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to Delhi. He ultimately did not visit India that month, although New Delhi had repeatedly expressed interest in such a visit. The two governments had also been in communication over the matter.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh has agreed to purchase additional Boeing aircraft from the United States as part of a new agreement. Sergio Gor, the US special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs and ambassador to India, disclosed the development in a post on X on Sunday night.
Kabir said Bangladesh was moving to purchase more Boeing aircraft from the US not under pressure but based on its own needs. He said the government aims to turn Bangladesh into an aviation hub for the region.
