India - Bangladesh Relations Documents
India and Bangladesh enjoy extensive and wide-ranging relations covering a number of areas of mutual interest. The peoples of the two countries have enjoyed traditionally close geographical, historical, cultural and ethnic ties, which is growing from strength to strength. India follows a policy of expanding and deepening its friendly ties with Bangladesh on the basis of respect for each other's sovereignty and mutual benefit.
Regular exchanging of high level visits take place between the two countries, which underscores the importance attached by the leadership of the two countries to maintaining ties and to promote mutual understanding and goodwill between the two countries. Former Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Dhaka on June 19-20 and among other engagements, jointly received with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina the inaugural Calcutta-Dhaka bus service.
In this section all important documents, agreements, MOUs, joint statements and agreed minutes between India and Bangladesh, since the establishment of bilateral relations on 6 December, 1971, have been compiled in one place.