Yunus, Modi may meet in November: foreign adviser

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may hold their first bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming BIMSTEC Summit in Thailand, likely to take place in November.

Foreign Adviser Md. Touhid Hossain said this while addressing a media briefing at the foreign ministry on Tuesday (October 1).

He said, “The bilateral meeting is expected to be held during the BIMSTEC summit, which is tentatively scheduled for next month.”

The Chief Adviser is scheduled to attend the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit, initially planned for September 4, but the event was postponed.

Thailand is set to host the next summit while Bangladesh will take responsibility as the next chair of BIMSTEC there.

Dispelling speculation, no meeting between the heads of government of Bangladesh and India took place during the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York due to schedule conflicts of the two leaders.