Bangladesh, India to hold JCC meeting this month

The next meeting of the Bangladesh-India Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) will be convened shortly this month on a virtual platform.

The foreign minister-level meeting will review the entire gamut of bilateral relationship, including the implementation process of ongoing projects, reports UNB.

It would be the sixth meeting of the JCC. The fifth meeting was held in New Delhi on February 8 last year.

An official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in Dhaka gave the information after a telephonic conversation between Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and his Indian counterpart Dr S Jaishankar.

"It (JCC) might be held at the soonest this month," the MoFA official said.

In a Twitter post, the Indian foreign minister said he had a warm conversation with Dr Momen and they agreed to hold Joint Consultative Commission very soon.

"Will continue to work closely to reach the ambitious goals set by our leaders," said Dr Jaishankar.

Officials said the JCC will set a roadmap for taking forward the bilateral cooperation to the next level.

Review on projects will be given importance as a priority issues in the next JCC to expedite the implementation process, said an official.

A high-level monitoring mechanism is likely to be set up to review the progress of the ongoing projects regularly, the official said.

The next FM-level meeting will review ongoing cooperation including the implementation of decisions taken so far including those issues agreed in the last JCC.

Security, border management, trade and investment flows, power and energy, river water sharing, development partnership, transport connectivity, culture, people-to-people connectivity will be discussed in the JCC.