New Delhi:
India on Friday introduced that International Secretary Vikram Misri will journey to Bangladesh on Monday, a go to that comes amid growing pressure in ties between New Delhi and Dhaka over assaults on minorities, together with Hindus, within the neighbouring nation.
It will likely be the primary high-level go to from New Delhi to Dhaka after deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh and took shelter in India following huge anti-government protests.
Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated Mr Misri will journey to Bangladesh to attend a gathering underneath the framework of International Workplace Consultations.
In Dhaka, the overseas secretary will maintain talks together with his Bangladeshi counterpart, in addition to holding a number of different conferences, he stated.
“The overseas secretary is scheduled to go to Bangladesh for International Workplace Consultations on December 9. That is a part of our structured interactions with the Bangladesh facet,” Mr Jaiswal stated.
Mr Jaiswal was responding to a query at his weekly media briefing.
On the arrest of Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das in Bangladesh, the MEA spokesperson stated India expects a good, simply and clear authorized course of within the case.
“We have now spoken on this concern earlier. We wish to reiterate our expectation that related authorized processes underway in Bangladesh are executed in a good, simply and clear method, making certain full respect for the authorized rights of involved people,” he stated.
The relations between India and Bangladesh got here underneath pressure after the interim authorities headed by Muhammad Yunus got here to energy within the neighbouring nation. The relations deteriorated additional in latest weeks over assaults on Hindus and the arrest of Chinmoy Das.
The assaults triggered protests in India. The Bangladesh overseas ministry summoned the Indian envoy just lately and lodged a protest over the storming of the Bangladeshi mission in Agartala by a gaggle of protesters.
India final week stated the interim authorities in Bangladesh should dwell as much as its duty of defending all minorities because it expressed severe concern over the “surge” of extremist rhetoric and growing incidents of violence in opposition to Hindus.
India had additionally hoped that the case referring to Chinmoy Das, arrested on the cost of sedition, can be handled in a simply and honest method.
Chinmoy Das was arrested at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport final month in reference to a sedition case.
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