Foreign Affairs Adviser to the interim government Md Touhid Hossain and Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a meeting on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York on Monday.
“Had a meeting with Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain of Bangladesh in New York this Monday evening. The conversation focused on our bilateral ties,” Jaishankar wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, after the meeting.
The Dhaka-Delhi bilateral relations felt a strain after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India in face of a student-people movement on August 5. Since then, this was the first high-level meeting between the two countries.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a post on X, “Foreign Affairs Adviser, HE Md. Touhid Hossain, and India External Affairs Minister, HE @DrSJaishankar, met at #UNGA79 sidelines and discussed issues of mutual interest between #Bangladesh|#India.”
The foreign adviser is accompanying Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus at the 79th UN General Assembly (UNGA). Muhammad Yunus on Monday arrived in the USA to attend the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
A commercial flight of Qatar Airways carrying the chief adviser and his entourage members landed at the JFK International Airport, New York, at 10:10 pm (NY time) on September 23.
On September 24, Prof Yunus will join the inaugural session of the 79th UNGA (opening of the high-level week) at the UN headquarters in New York. He is scheduled to deliver his speech at the UNGA at 10 am (NY time) on September 27.
