- Modi, Younus meets for the first time after Hasina’s exit last year.
- The PM repeats for a democratic, stable, peaceful, Bangladesh.
- Yunus wants to work with Modi to reset the stasted tie.
India’s Foreign Ministry said that Bangkok/New Delhi: The Prime Minister of India urged the interim leader of Bangladesh to avoid rhetoric, which intellectually saves bilateral relations during his first meeting on Friday.
The relationship between South Asian neighbors, which were strong under Hasina, fled from the country in the last August due to a large -scale student -led protests, and demanding shelter in India.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunas, who took over as the Chief Advisor of an interim government in Dhaka after Hasina exiting, met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangok on Friday.
India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told reporters, “Prime Minister (Modi) urged (…) that any rhetoric that fulfills the environment is avoided.”
“(Modi) reiterated India’s support for a democratic, stable, peaceful, progressive and inclusive Bangladesh,” Egypt said, the Indian leader also emphasized New Delhi’s will for New Delhi for “a positive and creative relationship with Bangladesh on the basis of” a sense of prevention of New Delhi “.
Bangladesh described a 40-minute exchange between the two leaders as “clear, productive and creative”.
Yunus’s press office said in a statement that Younus told Modi that Bangladesh wanted to work with the two countries to establish a relationship on the right path.
Public opinion in Bangladesh has been against India, in his decision to provide a sanctuary to Hasina. New Delhi has not responded to Dhaka’s request to send him home for testing.
‘Atrocity’
The two leaders discussed Hasina’s extradition at the request of Bangladesh, saying, Misri said, without further expansion.
Bangladesh’s statement quoted Yunus as saying, “He has constantly made false and inflammatory allegations against the interim government of Bangladesh.”
Yunus requested New Delhi to take appropriate measures to prevent Hasina from making provocative comments while in India, the statement said that Modi said that India did not support any particular party in Bangladesh.
Misri of India said that Modi had asked Yunus to help maintain border security and stability, and hoped that Bangladesh would thoroughly investigate all matters of “atrocities” against people of minority groups, including Hindus, including Hindus.
India repeatedly urged Bangladesh to protect their minority Hindus, saying that they were being targeted in a Muslim-majority country because Yoons took charge. Dhaka says that violence has been exaggerated and it is not a communal issue.
“Hopefully this meeting will begin the process of reconstruction of some engagement,” said Harsh Pant, an Indian think-tank Observer Research Foundation.
“I think at this point, just stabilizing the relationship should probably be a priority.”
With long -term cultural and commercial relations, both nations share 4,000 km (2,500 mi) border.
Modi and Yumns met on the banks of a summit in Bimstec, Bangkok, or a Gulf of Bengal initiative for multi-regional technical and economic cooperation, a group including Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
