Argentina is set to open an embassy in Bangladesh on 27 February, says Franco Agustín Senilliani Melchior, head of the Economic and Trade Section of the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in India. Franco Agustín Senilliani Melchior told Prothom Alo that an Argentine delegation headed by him would come to Dhaka for this purpose on Monday (30 January). A senior official of the
Bangladesh should go for signing a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with the MERCOSUR, a trade bloc of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, since negotiations over a free trade agreement might take a long time, said a diplomat from Argentina.