“Bangladesh – India Cooperation in the Changing Regional and Global Context”

Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) organized a seminar on “Bangladesh – India Cooperation in the Changing Regional and Global Context” on 03 July 2019 at BIISS auditorium. Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi, Adviser to the Hon’ble Prime Minister on International Affairs was present as the Chief Guest. Ambassador Munshi Faiz Ahmad chaired the inaugural session. Major General A K M Abdur Rahman, ndc, psc, Director General, BIISS, and Ambassador Sujan R. Chinoy, Director General, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) delivered the introductory remarks.

In his remarks, Major General A K M Abdur Rahman highlighted on the long standing relationship between Bangladesh and India. He focused on the importance of the bilateral relations between the two county to explore every opportunity to work together to guarantee all potential enhancements of this relations for the sake of mutual progress and prosperity. In his remarks, Ambassador Sujan R. Chinoy mentioned about the warm relationship between Bangladesh – India. Both countries are working to strengthen the scope for connectivity, trade and economic cooperation, and enhancing security cooperation. In his address, Professor Dr. Gowher Rizvi mentioned that Bangladesh and India have witnessed remarkable progress in cooperation over the last decade in different areas like connectivity and infrastructure development, energy and security cooperation, and people-to-people contact. He expressed that Bangladesh is looking forward to jointly celebrating more success stories of collective endeavours between India and Bangladesh in the coming days.

The seminar included a lively open discussion where senior officials from different ministries of Bangladesh, representatives from different foreign missions, business personalities, media, academia, researchers, and teachers from various universities participated and expressed their valuable opinions and observations on the subject. They expected a strongly bonded relationship between Bangladesh and India in the field of development and mutual cooperation.