Swaraj in Dhaka, likely to discuss Rohingya crisis

TIL Desk/World/Dhaka/ External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a two-day visit to attend a joint consultative committee meeting to review the bilateral ties and discuss ways to further strengthen the relationship.

Swaraj, who arrived on a special Indian aircraft, was received by her Bangladesh counterpart A H Mahmud Ali at the Bangabandhu Air Base in Dhaka. Officials said the Teesta River deal and the Rohingya crisis were among issues likely to be discussed in Swaraj’s talks with Ali.

She is ‘expected to meet the Bangladeshi leadership and also interact with the representatives of leading Bangladeshi think-tanks, chambers of commerce and industry and cultural organisations’, an Indian High Commission statement said.

Bangladesh foreign ministry officials said Swaraj was scheduled to call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, main opposition leader Raushan Ershad of Jatiya Party and former premier Khaleda Zia on Sunday.