During a meeting with her Nepalese counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered to let Nepal use its recently built Payra port.
On the eve of the UN Food Systems Summit, the two visiting ministers met in the FAO Headquarters’ newly opened Bangladesh-Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Room. According to UNB, both leaders are in Rome for the summit.
During the meeting, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister, AK Abdul Momen, revealed that PM Hasina offered Nepal the use of theu Pyra port.
“Bangladesh has already opened the Chalna and Chittagong ports for Nepal. Nepal can use the newly constructed Payra port as well,” Momen quoted her as telling Dahal.
Bangladesh is transforming its Sayedpur airport into a regional center, according to PM Hasina, to improve connectivity in the area.
According to Momen, the Nepalese prime minister praised the progress made in Bangladesh under the capable leadership of PM Hasina.
“You are a leader of our region,” Momen quoted him as saying.
He said there is a huge scope of hydroelectricity generation in Nepal.
In this regard, Sheikh Hasina stated that after the first trilateral power trade between Bangladesh and Nepal through India for 40MW of power begins, Bangladesh will take initiatives to import renewable energy, notably hydroelectricity.
Dahal noted that many Nepalese students are attending universities in Bangladesh.
