Hasina's Tripura visit to strengthen ties
India on Tuesday said the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Tripura would further strengthen people-to-people links and enhance trade and economic relations between India and Bangladesh.
A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on the occasion of Hasina's visit noted that India and Bangladesh share enduring fraternal, linguistic and cultural ties.
Cooperation between India and Bangladesh has been greatly enhanced with the Bangladesh prime minister visiting India in January 2010 followed by a return visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in September 2011, it said.
Dr Singh, during his visit to Bangladesh in September 2011, was accompanied by the chief ministers of four states bordering Bangladesh (Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram), which underscored the potential for furthering engagement and ties between the states of North-East India and Bangladesh, the statement added.
On her maiden visit to Tripura, the prime minister of Bangladesh will be conferred a Doctor of Literature honoris causa at the 9th Convocation of Tripura University by the Vice-President of India Hamid Ansari. The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal, will be present on the occasion.
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