Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit India in the first week of October to join the India Economic Summit to be held in New Delhi. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen disclosed this while speaking to reporters at the foreign ministry on Sunday. The Prime Minister will also hold a meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during the visit.
Indian Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar will come to Dhaka in the third week of August between 20 and 21, he said adding that the schedule will be finalized when Prime Minister Hasina visits India.
Held under the theme Innovating for India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World, the meeting will convene key leaders from government, the private sector, academia and civil society to address strategic issues of regional significance under four thematic pillars:
• The New Geopolitical Reality – Geopolitical shifts and the complexity of our global system,
• The New Social System – Inequality, inclusive growth, health and nutrition,
• The New Ecological System – Environment, pollution and climate change,
• The New Technological System – The Fourth Industrial Revolution, science, innovation and entrepreneurship.