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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 17th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit at Addu, Male on November 10, report agencies.
The meeting will be held at Shangri-La's Villingi Resort, nearly three hours ahead of the formal inauguration of the summit of the eight South Asian nations.
This will be the second top level interaction between the two leaders of Bangladesh and India within three months.
Meanwhile, Indian foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai Saturday confirmed that the meeting would take place on the sidelines of SAARC summit.
He told journalists in New Delhi that the two prime ministers would review the bilateral relations and discuss ways to boost regional cooperation.
Asked if the two prime ministers could touch upon the thorny bilateral issues like sharing of water of common river Teesta and transit links between mainland India and its northeastern states through Bangladesh, Mathai said that Hasina and Singh could hold discussions on the tasks left 'unfinished' during the latter's tour to Dhaka on Sep 6 and 7.
According to the joint statement issued after the meeting between Singh and Hasina in Dhaka, the two neighbours agreed to work together to further strengthen SAARC, including expanding areas of cooperation, and as partners in achieving the full implementation of all existing projects and agreements of the bloc.
New Delhi and Dhaka had long been negotiating a deal on Teesta and the two countries were about to sign an interim agreement during Singh's visit to Bangladesh.
But West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's decision not to accompany Singh to Dhaka held the issue back as she differed with India's central government on the Teesta issue, forcing New Delhi to postpone the signing.
Banerjee is understood to have conveyed to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government in New Delhi that she would not endorse a deal that would hurt the interests of the people of West Bengal, which is largely dependent on the common river for power generation and irrigation.
Meanwhile, officials with knowledge of the proceedings said that the conclave, which would be attended by the leaders of the eight South Asian nations, would culminate in signing of four agreements covering establishment of a SAARC seed bank, multilateral arrangement on recognition of conformity assessment, rapid response to natural disaster and implementation of regional standards.
The SAARC member states are also expected to adopt a charter of democracy in the summit.
Source: thefinancialexpress-bd.com
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