PM Hasina expresses interest in joining under-construction India-Myanmar-Thailand highway
The India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) trilateral highway.
Star Online Report
Star Online Report
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today conveyed interest in joining the under-construction India-Myanmar-Thailand highway.
Hasina voiced Dhaka's interest in the trilateral highway during her virtual summit with Indian PM Narendra Modi.
She "expressed keen interest in the ongoing India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway project and sought support of India for Bangladesh to connect with this project with a view to enhance connectivity between the regions of South and South East Asia," said a joint statement issued post-summit.
"In the same spirit, the Indian side requested Bangladesh to allow connectivity from West Bengal (Hilli) to Meghalaya (Mahendraganj) via Bangladesh," it said, our New Delhi correspondent reports.