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PM to address UNGA, meet Modi today

Diplomatic Correspondent
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the 69th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and hold an important meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New York today.
Modi will be the sixth speaker at the UNGA today while Hasina will be the eighth, said a high official at the foreign ministry. The two leaders will meet after delivering their speeches at the UN.
Diplomatic sources said the bilateral meeting is crucial as both the leaders are keen to take the bilateral relations to a
new height through solving the pending issues.
Hasina in her speech at the UNGA will highlight international peace and security, democracy and good governance, empowerment of women, poverty alleviation and climate change, according to officials. As usual, she will address the UN meeting in Bangla.
The PM, who is leading a 185-member delegation to the US, will speak about Bangladesh's position on the theme of the general debate of the 69th UNGA - "Delivering on and Implementing a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda”.
Her speech will also cover Bangladesh's achievements in establishing democracy and good governance, its leading role in women empowerment, steps taken by the present government to alleviate pov-
erty and face the challenges of climate change and progress on MDGs.
On Hasina-Modi talks, diplomatic sources said substantive issues will come up for discussion at the meeting.
"Since this will be the first meeting between the two leaders, they will discuss issues which are substantive in nature," Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman of Indian external affairs ministry, told a press briefing in New Delhi recently.
Officials said PM Hasina at the meeting is expected to raise the issues of implementing the Land Boundary Agreement and early signing of the Teesta water sharing deal.
They added: Bangladesh and India know each other's concerns well and the two leaders will exchange views on them. Political and economic issues will also come up for discussion.
Hasina and Modi will talk about the Saarc summit slated for November in
Kathmandu. They are likely to discuss expanding India-Bangladesh cooperation in new areas like nuclear energy and outer space. India has offered to share its expertise in civil nuclear energy and facilitate the launch of Bangladesh's satellite Bangabandhu 1.
They are also expected to make a final decision on Bangladesh's request for a fresh line of credit from India. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali raised the issue of new line of credit during the Joint Consultative Commission meeting in New Delhi on September 20.
India during Hasina's visit to New Delhi in January, 2010 had announced a $1 billion line of credit, the highest foreign assistance by India to any country, for improving infrastructure in Bangladesh. Out of the amount, $200 million was converted into grant-in-aid.