India said that it would continue to work with Bangladesh to fulfil the shared aspirations of the people of both countries for prosperity, security and development while trade and commerce had started with Bangladesh.
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma went to call on chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus and he had conveyed the message, said Randhir Jaiswal, official spokesperson at the ministry of external affairs, on Thursday.
The high commissioner also conveyed India鈥檚 commitment to taking forward the relationship in accordance with their respective national priorities.
鈥楽o that is how approach to our ties with Bangladesh are at present,鈥� said the MEA spokesperson while responding to a question in a weekly briefing in New Delhi.
Responding to a separate question, he said that the US assistant secretary Donald Lu was visiting India and he had several engagements.
鈥楬e [Donald Lu] is attending the Ideas Summit Conference, which is being organised by the US-India Business Council,鈥� Randhir continued.
He said that trade and commerce had started with Bangladesh. Trucks were plying between the two countries carrying essential commodities and whatever else that was being traded between India and Bangladesh.
On the projects part, the spokesperson said that several of the projects had been impacted because of the situation in Bangladesh.
鈥楻ight now, they have been disrupted and these projects will recommence when the security situation in Bangladesh permits our personnel, who are working on those projects, and they can return and resume work.鈥�
The project between India鈥檚 Numaligarh and Parbatipur in Bangladesh through which they are supplying high-speed diesel is in operation since March of 2023.
鈥楾here are some added issues in regard to this friendship project, extension of the pipeline on which we have made some proposal to Bangladesh and we await their comeback on it,鈥� Randhir mentioned.
About the Adani project, the spokesperson said that it was a private project and bound by a buyer-seller agreement between two parties.
鈥極ne party happens to be an Indian party and the other a Bangladeshi party. It is for both these parties to decide what they want out of this arrangement,鈥� added the MEA spokesperson.
