India wants Bangladesh to succeed in its mission to become a wealthy nation, Narendra Modi has said.
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“People in India admire your nation's progress despite challenges,” he said in an address at the Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday evening.
“We want you to succeed in your Mission 2021 and 2041.”
Bangladesh’s goal is to graduate to middle-income status by 2021 and become a developed nation by 2041.
The Indian prime minister’s speech at ‘Shapla’ followed Sheikh Hasina’s, who said she held a very ‘fruitful’ bilateral talks with her counterpart.
“We stand at a moment of huge opportunity in our relationship. Prime Minister Hasina and I recognise that.”
“Indian investments in Bangladesh will help. Will also try to make trade smoother and easier, including at the border.”
Modi arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning a two-day state visit. Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, arrived a day ahead.
“We have resolved a question that has lingered since Independence. Our two nations have a settled boundary,” said Modi about the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA).
Documents of the ratification of the LBA were exchanged at noon on Saturday.
It will kick start the process of implementing the 41-year old deal, ending stateless lives of more than 50,000 people in 161 enclaves on both sides of the border.
Bangladesh and India shared an ‘interconnected destiny’, he said.
“We are not just neighbours but nations bound by the threads of history, religion, culture, language and kinship and a passion four cricket!”
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