Jaishankar to visit Dhaka Thursday

Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will pay a day long visit in Dhaka on Thursday to hand over an invitation letter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to visit India.

“Yes, the EAM will pay a one day visit in Dhaka on Thursday. He will carry a letter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to visit India,” said India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday.

Jaishankar will arrive in Dhaka in the morning on Thursday by a special aircraft and return to New Delhi on the same day evening. However, diplomatic sources in New Delhi said during the visit Jaishankar will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and hold bilateral meeting with his Bangladesh counterpart AK Abdul Momen. He will also join a dinner to be hosted by Abdul Momen.

The visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India at the invitation of Modi may happen in the first week of July this year, they added.

The visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is considered as a crucial one at a time when many developments have been happening in regional and international arena during the last couple of months. Many pending issues are likely to be discussed during the visit, he added.