With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina having concluded her all important trip to India it is important to analyze the magnitude of this visit.
Over the span of four days, she held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and met Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Indian Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, signing seven memorandum of understandings (MoUs) between Bangladesh and India along with having several high-level discussions on political and security cooperation, defense, border management, trade and connectivity, water resources, power and energy, development cooperation, cultural and people-to-people links. There was also talks of collaboration in new areas such as, environment, climate change, cyber security, ICT, space technology, green energy, and the blue economy. It is evident from the sheer number and variety of areas India and Bangladesh continue to engage in that this is a relationship that will continue to become stronger, a friendship that will become more resolute. India remains Bangladesh’s closest and most trusted ally, of that there is little doubt. Indeed, it is now time to take this relationship to the next level, and ensure that all of the talks and intentions that have been proposed or signed see progress, that we do not remain content with just words expressed by the two leaders. Both nations have recently celebrated landmarks in terms of years of independence, and both nations have lofty economic ambitions for the immediate future, where focused collaboration will certainly assist in reaching those goals for both nations.
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A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.