Bangladesh home minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India amid strained ties
Dhaka will send a senior bureaucrat as tensions with India persist over Sheikh Hasina’s presence and extradition request, officials said.
- Bangladesh Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed will not attend the inaugural Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation home ministers meeting in New Delhi starting Tuesday. Home Affairs Senior Secretary Manzur Morshed Chowdhury will lead the Bangladeshi delegation instead.
- Ahmed's absence occurs amid strained India-Bangladesh relations following the August 2024 ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina's presence in India and Dhaka's extradition request remain major points of contention between the two countries.
- BIMSTEC aims to strengthen security and economic cooperation across South and Southeast Asia. The inaugural ministerial meeting follows a joint working group session held September 28–29.
- Last month, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman skipped an outreach session of the BRICS summit in New Delhi. Bangladesh's foreign ministry said the atmosphere for such visits had been "vitiated" by Hasina's virtual press interaction.
- Member states will convene on Tuesday to address regional security, though the decision to send a bureaucrat instead of a minister from Dhaka suggests cooling in high-level bilateral engagement. This reflects Bangladesh's broader diplomatic friction with India.
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Bangladesh home minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India amid strained ties
Bangladesh home minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India amid strained ties
Bangladesh minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India
PTI Dhaka Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed will skip the first-ever meeting of home ministers of the BIMSTEC grouping in New Delhi, with a delegation led by a senior bureaucrat set to represent Dhaka amid strained ties between India and Bangladesh. Home Affairs Senior Secretary Manzur Morshed Chowdhury is leading the Bangladesh delegation at the two-day […]
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