PM wants closer ties with Belarus
She hosts a banquet for her counterpart
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underscored the importance of building closer relations between Bangladesh and Belarus, including in business and trade, for mutual benefit.
“If we could develop mutually beneficial partnership, we could contribute significantly to our economies for the benefit and wellbeing of our two peoples,” she said at a banquet hosted by her at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital in honour of visiting Belarus Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich.
Myasnikovich arrived on Sunday afternoon on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh to sign a number of deals.
Hasina informed her counterpart that both countries can help each other as Belarus has advanced technology and know-how while Bangladesh has human resources.
She said she is very confident that Bangladesh and Belarus are destined to strengthen deeper and broader linkages in various areas. “The range of legal instruments that our two countries have signed today will surely vindicate my expectation.”
Hasina mentioned that Bangladesh is on the way to be the economic hub of the region connecting South and South East Asia. “Similarly, Belarus may offer our business and industry a gateway to your Custom Union and to the European neighbourhood.”
She also mentioned that in the South Asian region, Bangladesh deeply values Belarus' growing interest and engagement. In this connection, she referred to concrete proposals on agriculture, education, science and technology by Belarus.
Belarus Prime Minister Myasnikovich also spoke on the occasion and underlined the need for bolstering ties between the two countries.
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