Hasina-Xi meeting underway in Johannesburg

Johannesburg
August 23, 2023, 10:52 PM
by UNB NEWS

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Johannesburg
Publish- August 23, 2023, 10:52 PM
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Update- August 24, 2023, 01:51 AM

Hasina-Xi meeting underway in Johannesburg

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Hilton Sandton hotel in South Africa's Johannesburg. Photo: PMO

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started talks at Sandton, the financial district of South Africa, to discuss further cooperation between the two countries overcoming common challenges.

The meeting began after 6:30pm, local time, (10:30pm Bangladesh time) at Hilton Hotel.

The two leaders are meeting for the second time since October 14, 2016, when President Xi held talks with PM Hasina during his visit to Bangladesh.

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In today’s meeting, Bangladesh wants to discuss the importance of regional peace and stability, enhanced trade and investment and loan issues with the Chinese leader, said officials accompanying the prime minister

The Prime Minister is visiting Johannesburg to attend the BRICS-Africa Outreach and the BRICS Plus Dialogues.

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Photo: PMO

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, who is accompanying the prime minister, said China is the development partner of Bangladesh and the two countries signed a number of projects and MoUs worth a total $23 billion with the government in addition to $13 billion from the private sector.

"But we got only $4 billion in the last eight years. Expediting the projects can be a topic of discussion,” he said.

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