New York, Sep 28: Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Friday on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) summit in New York.
Concluding the #UNGA week by meeting a close neighbor.
PM @narendramodi had an excellent meeting with Bangladeshi PM #SheikhHasina. The leaders took stock of the rapidly expanding multifaceted bilateral relationship. pic.twitter.com/3F4Q6gzreK
— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) September 27, 2019
Modi tweeted: “Excellent meeting with PM Sheikh Hasina. We talked about a wide range of subjects, particularly how to deepen economic as well as people-to-people cooperation between our nations.”
Excellent meeting with PM Sheikh Hasina. We talked about a wide range of subjects, particularly how to deepen economic as well as people-to-people cooperation between our nations. pic.twitter.com/iPBJC41ZRa
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 27, 2019
Both pioneers reiterated their “zero-tolerance approach” to violent extremism and terrorism and further underscored India-Bangladesh strong partnership in security field had generated mutual confidence and trust between two neighbours.
Both leaders committed to pursuing tougher actions against terrorism during bilateral talks at the UNGA 2019 summit. Hasina also extended a visit invitation to Modi to Bangladesh, which Modi accepted.
The statement said, “Bangladesh Prime Minister extended an invitation to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Bangladesh and suggested that it could be undertaken also in connection with the birth centenary of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The invitation was accepted by Prime Minister Modi.”
Moreover, PM Narendra Modi also held a bilateral meeting with Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering on the sidelines of the UNGA summit. Modi said it was a wonderful meeting with “my friend” Tshering.
It is always wonderful to meet my friend, @PMBhutan. We reviewed the ground covered so far in furthering India-Bhutan friendship. We discussed ways to boost bilateral cooperation. pic.twitter.com/4zIHsB7cVc
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 27, 2019
During the bilateral meeting, both leaders reviewed the sectors covered so far in India-Bhutan relationship and partnership. Modi tweeted saying, “We discussed ways to boost bilateral cooperation.”
དུས་ནམ་རང་འབད་རུང་ ངེ་ཆ་རོགས་ @PMBhutan དང་མཇལ་ནི་འདི་ དགའ་སྤྲོ་ཆེ་རང་ཆེ་བས།
ང་བཅས་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱ་འབྲུག་མཐུན་ལམ་གྱི་ལས་སྣ་ཚུ་གི་སྐོར་ལས་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་འབད་ཡི།
ང་བཅས་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ ཟུང་ཕྱོགས་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་གོང་འཕེལ་བཏང་ནི་གིས་ ཐབས་ཤེས་ཚུ་ཡང་བསྟུན་གྲོས་འབད་ཡི། pic.twitter.com/Oo5Gdn3eRi— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 27, 2019
PM Modi also met Mauritius President Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory on the sidelines of the UNGA 2019 summit.
My friend, @MauritiusPM, I was delighted to meet President Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory. We had a good interaction on ways to diversify India-Mauritius friendship. https://t.co/52DRde6lba
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 27, 2019
PM Modi also held a bilateral meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the margins of the 74th session of the UNGA summit. Both the leaders reviewed ties and discussed steps to intensify political, economic and people to people exchanges.
And a bilateral meeting between PM @narendramodi with the PM of Greece @kmitsotakis just after delivering the address at #UNGA Both leaders reviewed the state of bilateral relations and discussed steps to intensify political, economic and people to people exchanges. pic.twitter.com/YahbbbfWdL
— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) September 27, 2019
Had the opportunity to interact with the PM of Greece, @kmitsotakis. India-Greece relations have stood the test of time. We will work to enhance trade as well as people-to-people relations for the benefit of our citizens. pic.twitter.com/KD6VkPrDRQ
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 27, 2019