Hn_Ani2_Bangladesh_Dhaka_Tareq_A_Karim_On_India_Bangladesh_Government_18-02-22

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01:13what diplomatic strategies should Bangladesh adopt to address border

01:18tensions while maintaining cordial relations with India I think the answer

01:25is in your words we have to maintain cordial relations if we want to

01:31maintain cordial relations then we must talk with each other we cannot be making

01:36policies by crossing each other's signals we must engage and we must

01:42diffuse Bangladesh and India cannot afford to have hostile relations with

01:48each other how has the leadership change in Bangladesh impacted relations with

01:55India particularly in trade water sharing and security well a lot of

02:02emotions are in the play in both sides in the media and social media but my

02:08impression is that the governments of both the countries want to maintain

02:13continue maintaining cordial relations with each other and I think the official

02:18signals is what we should give importance to because the social media

02:24and will feed a lot of news and fake news which vitiates the atmosphere that

02:32is not in the interest of either Bangladesh or India do you anticipate

02:38shift in India's approach towards Bangladesh under the new government

02:42listen both countries every country's foreign relations is based on its

02:49perceptions of his own national interest we have our national interest

02:56and they have the national interest the friendship between two countries

03:02decided by their ability to address each other's national interest in an

03:08amicable manner so that the national interests of both countries come and

03:13meet at a point where there is an equilibrium when there's an equilibrium

03:18you call that friendship if the equilibrium shifts then there will be

03:22turbulences in the relationship so what changes could arise in maintaining

03:28strong ties with India after Sheikh Hasina's tenure there has been a regime

03:34change in Bangladesh and it is undeniable that India has permitted

03:40Sheikh Hasina to stay in India now we have to address each other's mutual

03:47concerns keeping that factor on the side and not make it central because by

03:56doing so we are likely to obfuscate other issues which are of vital

04:04importance to us that is maintenance of harmony along the borders continuation

04:11and expansion of trade as well as connectivity with with the our neighbors

04:18to our east the larger question of cooperation will become under stress for

04:27both countries proceeding on the road to regional cooperation is essential to

04:37reach the goal of self-sufficiency self-development and autonomy in

04:45development towards higher growths of growths of income how might regional

04:53cooperation in South Asia evolve following the leadership change in

04:58Bangladesh