NEW DELHI, Mar 5, 2020 (BSS) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will
visit Bangladesh to attend the “Mujib Borsho” celebration on March 17 and
there will be a bilateral component, an official said here today.
“Prime Minister (Modi) will visit Dhaka to attend the Mujib Borsho
celebration on March 17…We will share more details on the visit in due
course,” said spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Raveesh
Kumar here today.
Kumar said the invitation to Modi to attend the launch of the ‘Mujib
Borsho’ celebration was extended by Sheikh Hasina during her visit to Delhi
in October last year.
“Our Prime Minister has accepted the invite and he will undertake the
visit to Bangladesh,” he said at the weekly media briefing.
The spokesperson’s announcement came after the recent Dhaka visit of
Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. During Shringla’s two-day
Dhaka tour, he met the top leadership of the country.
Apart from this, the MEA spokesperson gave details on the postponement of
Modi’s upcoming Brussels visit for the India-EU Summit, which has been
deferred due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Prime Minister Modi was supposed to visit Brussels to attend the India-EU
Summit, an annual event aimed at expanding the strategic partnership later
this month.