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Amid an exercise to control damage caused by his remarks,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called up his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to tell her that India attaches the “highest importance” to relations with her country.
Singh,who will be undertaking a two-day visit to Bangladesh from September 6,conveyed his “warm personal greetings” to Hasina and told her “how much” he was looking forward to the trip to renew contacts with his “old friends” there,a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said.
He also underlined that “goodwill” existed among the political parties in both countries and encouraging people-to-people contacts was a priority in the relationship.
“Following the official announcement of his visit to Bangladesh on 6-7 September,the Prime Minister called the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina to say how much he was looking forward to the visit and to renewing contacts with his old friends there,” the statement said.
Singh conveyed his “warm personal greetings to Prime Minister Hasina and through her to the people of Bangladesh”,it said.
He said India attached “the highest importance to relations” with Bangladesh and “a strong and productive partnership between the two countries was in the interest of the two peoples and the people of South Asia as a whole”.
The telephone call from Singh comes amid efforts to control damage caused by his remarks that 25 per cent people of Bangladesh were anti-India.
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