External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will represent India at the funeral of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia in Dhaka tomorrow amid tensions between the two nations.
00:30In the middle of the tensions that we have with our, with Bangladesh, this comes as a crucial development. Prane joins us for more. Prane, explain to us why this is so critical.
00:41This shows that, you know, how much importance India attaches to the relation with Bangladesh.
00:48And this clearly is a big message being given out by the government of India, by the people of India, that external affairs minister, Dr. Ajay Shankar, will represent the government and represent the people of India in the final, you know, in the funeral of Maygum Khalid Azia, former prime minister of Bangladesh.
01:05And his son and her son, Tariq Rahman, has just returned to Bangladesh after 17 years of exile.
01:14And Bangladesh is, you know, making it as a big event there.
01:18And therefore, this is quite significant, as you also highlighted, that, you know, amid all tensions between India-Bangladesh ties, the very fact that the government of India has decided to send its external affairs minister is certainly a big message.
01:33Besides that, you know, India cares about the relation and ties with Bangladesh in that terms also, the visit of external affairs minister to Bangladesh, to Dhaka, tomorrow will be very significant.
01:46And now we have to see that, you know, how a Bangladesh government receives him and, you know, what are the possibilities of having, you know, talks on the sidelines of his visit.
01:56That will also be a thing we all would be watching, but definitely a very important and a significant development and a big message being given out by the government of India that we have decided to send our external affairs minister amid all these tensions, amid all these, you know, the issues there and unresolved issues as well.
02:14But India attaches importance to ties with Bangladesh and therefore our external affairs minister will be representing India there tomorrow in Dhaka.
02:24All right, as Bangladesh remains on a boil, our ties with them remain at an all-time low.
02:31The external affairs minister himself will be in Bangladesh for that funeral critical development they're coming in at this point.
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