Bangladesh and Cambodia sign 9 MoUs and one agreement

Bangladesh and Cambodia have signed nine memoranda of understanding and one agreement on cooperation in business, tourism and information technology.

Reazul Bashar Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 4 Dec 2017, 04:20 AM
Updated : 4 Dec 2017, 04:58 AM

Representatives from the two countries signed the deals in Phnom Penh on Monday in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen.

The two prime ministers held a private meeting before the signing and the delegations from the two countries sat for bilateral talks.

In a joint address after the signing, Hasina and Hun said they hoped to deepen the relationship between the two countries.

“I believe that signing of the MOUs on the JTC, on investment promotion, and the Agreement between our two Apex Chambers, will contribute to boosting of bilateral trade and investment,” Hasina said.

“Regional cooperation has also received major focus in our discussions today. I am happy to receive Prime Minister Hun Sen’s assurances of support to Bangladesh’s Sectoral Dialogue Partnership aspiration with ASEAN. As a Ganges basin country, Bangladesh also looks forward to working with Cambodia towards our membership aspiration at the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Forum.” 

The MoUs include cooperation in tourism, information and communication technology, institutional cooperation under the Joint Trade Council, collaboration in implementation of sustainable development goals, academic cooperation between the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies and the International Relations Institute of Cambodia, collaboration in the preservation of war history, war monuments and war relics, cooperation in aquaculture and fisheries and labour and training and promotion of investment between  Bangladesh Investment Development Authority and the Council for the Development of Cambodia.

The agreement signed by the two countries agrees to accelerate cooperation between the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce.