Dhaka, April 7 (ANI): Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman will depart Dhaka on April 7 for a visit to India en route to the Indian Ocean Conference in Mauritius (April 10–12), a senior Bangladesh Foreign Ministry official said. The minister will stop in New Delhi and hold courtesy meetings with several Indian leaders, including External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the National Security Adviser, and Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
“Foreign Minister Dr. Khalilur Rahman will depart Dhaka on 7 April to participate in the Indian Ocean Conference to be held in Mauritius from 10-12 April 2026. On the way, he will make a stopover in New Delhi,” Mahbubul Alam, Director General of the Public Diplomacy Wing at the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry, told reporters. Alam added that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs, Humayun Kabir, will accompany the foreign minister during the stopover and will also attend the Mauritius conference.
Alam said the meetings will emphasize strengthening the stability and continuity of bilateral relations based on mutual respect, trust, and shared interests, and are expected to lay a foundation for enhanced, sustainable cooperation between Bangladesh and India.
The visit follows recent high-level engagements: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, discussing people-centred cooperation across public health, financial inclusion, women’s empowerment, rural development, trade and investment, ease of doing business, technology partnerships, and energy cooperation. Verma underlined transforming geographic proximity into opportunities through economic and connectivity linkages and people-to-people exchanges.
On April 3, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Riaz Hamidullah met India’s Chief of Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, to discuss enhancing bilateral defence cooperation, including joint training. On March 27, Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh described Indo-Bangladesh ties as strategic and people-focused while addressing the Bangladeshi National Day reception in New Delhi. (ANI)
