DHAKA, 28 March, 2021, (TON): Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Saturday and discussed the progress achieved in areas like connectivity, energy, trade, health, and developmental cooperation following which the two countries signed five MoUs covering a number of areas of bilateral cooperation.
Modi, who is visiting Bangladesh on his first trip to a foreign country since the outbreak of the coronavirus, held one-on-one talks with Hasina which was followed by a delegation-level meeting that continued for over an hour.
The two sides signed five Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) covering areas such as connectivity, commerce, information technology, and sports. In a humanitarian gesture, PM Modi handed over a representational key of 109 ambulances to his counterpart Hasina. He also handed over a representational box to her as a symbol of India’s gift of 1.2 million Covid vaccine doses to Bangladesh.