Bangladesh, Hungary sign MoUs on water resource management and agriculture

Bangladesh has signed memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with Hungary to boost cooperation between the two countries in water resources management and agriculture and between their foreign offices.

The three MoUs have been signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to the country, the first European nation to recognise Bangladesh as an independent country.

The agreements were inked on Tuesday during Sheikh Hasina's bilateral meeting with her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán.

The Bangladesh leader is in Hungary on a three-day official visit to attend the Budapest Water Summit. She is the first Bangladesh head of government to visit the central European country.

Bangladesh Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud and Hungary's Interior Minister Sandor Pinter signed the MOU on cooperation in the field of water management.

The MoU between the two countries' foreign offices was signed by Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque and Hungary's Minister of State in Charge of Economic Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar.

Bangladesh Agriculture Secretary Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah and Hungary's State Minister for Agriculture Zsolt Németh signed the MoU on cooperation in agriculture.