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Ahead of election, focus turns to Sheikh Hasina’s foreign affairs team

With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina poised for the upcoming election in Bangladesh, there are speculations about a new diplomatic team that may take charge if she is re-elected which looks highly likely in the current circumstances. During the recent years Ms. Hasina has engaged all the regional and global development…

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Sri Lanka, Bangladesh mull over joining RCEP bloc

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh eye RCEP membership: Four years after India's exit, neighbours consider joining 15-nation trading bloc. Sri Lanka has applied, Bangladesh to decide after elections. Joining RCEP would take them out of subcontinental trade, enable access to Asian economies. India's neighbours joining RCEP a "development of concern" for India.…

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At Indian Ocean conference in Colombo, Jaishankar raises dangers of unviable debt, projects

India wants to be a "friend to the world" and work to ensure a free, open and inclusive Indian Ocean region. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh discussed dangers of unsustainable debt and witnessed signing of three agreements on bilateral cooperation. India took over as Vice Chair of IORA, which includes…

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Bangladesh FM says not bothered by US visa curbs, promises free elections

Abdul Momen tells Al Jazeera that Bangladesh is capable of conducting free and fair polls in the wake of US visa curbs.

Al Jazeera

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Will hold free, inclusive and credible election: Bangladesh Minister

Bangladesh will hold a “free, inclusive and credible election”, assured Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen here on Friday.

The Hindu

Amid a worsening refugee crisis, public support is high in both Australia and NZ to accept more Rohingya

Nearly one million stateless Rohingya people who fled brutal ethnic cleansing in Myanmar have been languishing in extremely congested refugee camps in Bangladesh for the past five and a half years.

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Bangladesh calls for Australia to increase intake of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar

Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says many countries had substantially increased the number of Rohingya refugees they had taken, and he would like to see Australia take more people in.

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Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina to visit India from 5-8 Sept, bilateral talks lined up with PM Modi

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be on a visit to India from 5 September to 8 September. Read more on Dynamite News

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Delayed Rohingya repatriation becoming a regional crisis

The future of the Rohingya people is not only a Bangladeshi issue, it is now a global issue. Bangladesh has been seeking the cooperation of regional countries and the United Nations to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya since they were first driven from Myanmar in 2017. But the results…

Bangkok Post

Cambodia, Asean need to step up in Rohingya crisis

Since August 2017, rampant persecution and violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state has pushed hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority people, known as the Rohingya, to abandon their homes and seek sanctuary in Bangladesh. According to the United Nations' estimation, 200,000 Myanmar civilians have already sought refuge in Bangladesh following prior…

Bangkok Post

Bangladesh invites Assam CM to boost ties on development

Himanta Biswa Sarma praises Sheikh Hasina for crackdown on ULFA

The Hindu

India, Bangladesh should work on river management: Jaishankar

Ready to extend assistance in management of annual flood in neighbouring nation, says External Affairs Minister

The Hindu

'Rohingya refugees' criminal tendencies may cause unrest'

GUWAHATI: Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, while insisting on expediting mutual cooperation between the southeast Asian nations, raised concern that criminal tendencies among "frustrated" Rohingya refugees may give rise to extremism and unrest in the region.

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India, Bangladesh discuss high-level visits

The two sides stressed on trade, commerce and connectivity, affected by COVID-19 restrictions and recent conflict in Ukraine.

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Rethink impractical projects, Jaishankar tells Bangladesh FM

Abdul Momen had asked whether Quad can offer same kind of financial aid as China

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