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Linking Bangladesh to Asian Highway necessary for dev

PM tells Thai foreign minister

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the need for linking Bangladesh to the Asian Highway as she said the country does not want to remain isolated from the regional flow of development.
She made the remarks when the visiting Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya called on her at her office yesterday. They also discussed other issues of common interest, especially trade, business and investment.
"Bangladesh's inclusion in the Asian Highway is necessary for our country's rapid development," she was quoted as saying by her Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad.
The country was late in getting onto the information superhighway passing through the seabed of the Bay of Bengal and now its joining in the caravan of nations along the road communications superhighway has also long been stuck up in dithering, especially over its routing issue. I he PM also called lor Thai investment in every development sector of Bangl adesh.
In reply, the Thai foreign minister expressed their interest in making investment in Bangladesh's energy, food processing, agricultural, poultry, and fisheries sectors.
Kasit Piromya also said Thailand can help Bangladesh by providing training facilities for poultry, food processing, and fisheries industries as his country has “vast and long experience in these sectors".
The prime minister and the
Thai foreign minister expressed satisfaction over the return of democracy both in Bangladesh and Thailand after going through political crisis.
Hasina said the people ol Bangladesh are now advancing towards peace and prosperity following the Awami League-led Grand Alliance's victory in the last free and fair parliamentary’ elections held on December 29.
"Without true democracy people cannot establish their rights and a nation cannot achieve its cherished development," she told theThai FM.
Kasit Piromya hailed the wise and visionary leadership ol Hasina as PM and hoped for Bangladesh's rapid and sustainable development during her tenure.
He laid emphasis on closer relationship between the ruling AL and Thailand's ruling Democrat Party for further strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries and for the sake of democracy.
TheThai FM expressed his deep shock at the death of over a hundred people in the cyclonic storm Aila and the death of noted nuclear scientist and Hasina's husband Dr MAWazed Miah.
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni and former Ambassador Mohammad Ziauddin were present.