Sushma to visit Bangladesh in September

Dhaka Aug 9 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Dhaka in the first half of September to attend the fourth Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting a media report said.

Indian High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla informed Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque of the visit during a meeting in Dhaka on Monday the Dhaka Tribune reported.

The exact date is to be finalised.

This will be Sushma Swaraj s second visit to Bangladesh. She was last here in 2014.

The JCC meeting is to review the implementation and progress of decisions taken during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina s visit to India in April this year.

The paper quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the two sides were working to finalise the date of Sushma Swaraj s visit. She is also scheduled to attend the UN General Assembly in New York in the second half of September.

Regarding the Bangladesh national election Shringla told reporters: "We re all democracies. We all believe in free and fair elections."

--IANS
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