Bangladesh’s new mission in Guwahati starts functioning

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has welcomed Bangladesh Assistant High Commissioner Kazi Muntashir Murshed in Guwahati as the new mission in India’s northeast state started functioning.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 29 April 2017, 09:49 AM
Updated : 29 April 2017, 09:49 AM

Bangladesh opened this Assistant High Commission on Mar 24 of this year with consular jurisdiction over Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.

Murshed met the chief minister on Friday when he was “warmly” received by him at his office Janata Bhawan, said a statement.

In recent years, both Bangladesh and India have expanded their relations on all fronts and embarked on new fields of cooperation.

Guwahati is the fifth mission after New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Agartala.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her counterpart Narendra Modi also launched new bus services -- Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala, Dhaka-Shilong-Guwahati, and Dhaka-Khulna-Kolkata.

They also inaugurated the fourth railway link between Radhikapur-Birol and work on three more links underway and expected to be completed by 2018.

“Bangladesh is keen to enhance connectivity, people to people contact and trade between the north east of India and Bangladesh and opening up a new diplomatic Mission is the demonstration of our government’s willingness to treasure and nurture the existing excellent friendship between Bangladesh and India,” Murshed told the Chief Minister.

Sonowal assured that his office will extend its “full cooperation” to him.