Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday, Dec 9, met his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Touhid Hossain in Dhaka and discussed among other things recent developments including attacks on Hindu minorities in that country.
This marks the first high-level diplomatic engagement between the two countries since the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government took power on August 8 after the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina regime.
Misri said after the meeting that both officials also discussed the recent developments related to the safety and welfare of minorities.
"We also discussed recent developments and I conveyed our concerns including those related to the safety and welfare of minorities... We also discussed regrettable incidents of attacks on cultural and religious properties," he said after the meeting.
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters here last week that the Foreign Office consultations led by the Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is a structured engagement between India and Bangladesh.
"We look forward to this meeting...".
On India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri's statement in Bangladesh, Foreign Affairs expert Robinder Sachdeva says,
"Secretary Misri's meeting was very important today. The key thing is to look forward to how Bangladesh acts after this meeting... We have laid our concerns to the interim government of Bangladesh... Secretary Misri has laid out the entire nine yards.
"Now we have to see if, in the next one or two months, there is any change in the ground situation in Bangladesh, with regards to the issue of minorities and atrocities against Hindus.
If there is some change, then it indicates that the current dispensation in Bangladesh intends to work maturely with India.
If we do not see any change on the ground after this visit, then it means that the powers that be in Bangladesh are intentionally not wanting to normalize or bring relations with India on a normal path...".
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