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Dhaka, Beijing likely to ink 20-22 MoUs during PM’s visit
Foreign minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said Bangladesh and China are likely to sign 20 to 22 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s four-day bilateral Beijing visit starting tomorrow.
"The MoUs on cooperation in the economic and banking sector, trade and investment, digital economy, infrastructure development, assistance in disaster management, construction of 6th and 9th Bangladesh-China friendship bridges, export of agricultural products from Bangladesh and people to people connectivity are likely to be signed," he added.
The foreign minister revealed this at a curtain raiser press conference at the Foreign Ministry here on the Prime Minister's scheduled China visit from July 8 to 11, reports UNB.
During the visit, Hasan said, inauguration of a number of projects of the two countries will also be announced.
He said Dhaka will seek China's assistance in several areas, including trade and investment in Bangladesh, financial assistance and repatriation of forcibly replaced Rohingya people to their homeland Myanmar.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is paying the bilateral state visit to Beijing at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Qiang.