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Dhaka, Oct 10: Bangladesh has suggested that its differences India on outstanding issues should be resolved through dialogue and wanted strengthening of people-to-people contact.
Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed also conveyed to outgoing Indian High Commissioner Veena Sikri an invitation to his counterpart A P J Abdul Kalam to visit his country.
"Through dialogue and discussion, we will be able to thrash out our differences, address the pinpricks and resolve the outstanding issues," he told Sikri when she made a farewell call on him at Bangabhaban here yesterday.
The Bangladesh president said that as a close neighbour, Dhaka attached great importance to its relations with New Delhi.
"In the past years, our two countries were engaged in sustained interaction at various political and official levels with a view to further strengthening the relationship," he told the envoy, according to Bangladeshi new agency UNB.
Ahmed invited the Indian President to visit Bangladesh, it said. Sikri also extended Kalam's invitation to Ahmed to visit India.
Underscoring the need for people-to-people contact between the two countries, he assured all cooperation to Sikri's successor as and when he takes up his assignment in Dhaka.
The President sought setting up of a world-class Saarc University in the region and hoped that the South Asia leaders would come forward in this regard.
The Indian envoy, who spent three years in Bangladesh, said proposals were there to set up different faculties of SAARC universities in the capitals of member states.
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