Indo-Bangla meet in city on July 2

GUWAHATI, June 30: India Foundation, in collaboration with State Innovation and Transformation Aayog (SITA), Assam, Bangladesh Foundation for Regiol Studies (BFRS) and Maula Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), is organizing the eighth round of Indo-Bangladesh Friendship Dialogue at Guwahati between the July 2 and July 4, 2017.

Chief Minister Sarbanda Sonowal will be the chief guest for the  iugural session of the first-ever Dialogue on July 2 at Taj Vivanta, Guwahati. The event will witness the presence of guest of honours – Union Minister of State for Exterl Affairs MJ Akbar and Union Ministrer of Bangladesh Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam, SITA vice-chairman Dipok Kr Barthakur, Assam Fince Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Tripura Tripura Md. Shahriar Alam and others.

The working sessions between Indian and Bangladeshi delegates will discuss on the dymics of intertiol border and security, water security and joint basin magement, energy security, cross-border generation and trade in power and on boosting connectivity in the region. 

The technical session of the dialogue would see experts, scholars, former and serving diplomats, including all the relevant stakeholders from both the tions discussing threadbare the nuts and bolts of bilateral relationship.  

After the daylong deliberations on multiple issues confronting the two tions, there will be valedictory session that would effectively sum up the findings and observations made during the event in the form of a ‘Guwahati Declaration’ envisaging the way forward for a more robust, mutually beneficial and cooperative relationship between India and Bangladesh.