Dhaka has urged Azerbaijan to recruit manpower from Bangladesh during the first round of Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) between Bangladesh and Azerbaijan. 

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elnur Mammadov led their respective sides at the FOC held at Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday, a foreign ministry's press release said here today. 

During the FOC, all aspects of bilateral cooperation between the two countries including cooperation in trade, investments, educational, cultural and ICT sector were discussed. 

Both sides stressed the importance of exchanging high level visits and agreed to expedite works on the pending bilateral instruments. 

The foreign secretary requested Azerbaijan to import good quality affordable RMG and pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh. 

The Bangladesh side proposed that Azerbaijan can be a good source of natural gas import for Bangladesh and also proposed to sign an MOU in this regard to which Azerbaijan side responded positively. 

Both sides also exchanged their views on different regional and global issues including the Russia-Ukraine war, Rohingya crisis and the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh region.

On the sideline of FOC, Bangladesh Foreign Secretary paid a courtesy call on Deputy Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan and CEO of COP 29 (Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC) Elnur Sultanov.
 
During the meeting, the Deputy Minister said that Azerbaijan as the next COP Chair is working to ensure better climate financing for developing countries while mechanisms already developed under the previous climate conferences like Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Loss and Damage Fund. 

Masud assured that Bangladesh will work closely with Azerbaijan over these issues.
 
He said that climate change adaptation is more important to Bangladesh than mitigation and in this area Bangladesh and Azerbaijan can work together. 

The foreign secretary also proposed to sign an MOU with Azerbaijan for import of natural gas from the country to which Azeri Deputy Minister for Energy responded positively.
 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Washington DC, the USA capital city, this afternoon after joining the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session and other high-level side and bilateral events in New York.

She reached Washington DC from New York by road at 6pm.

On her arrival in Washington DC, Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Muhammad Imran received the premier with a flower bouquet, reports BSS.

Earlier, she left her Place of Residence, Lotte New York for Washington DC at 12:30pm.

She arrived in New York on September 17.

The prime minister will leave Washington DC for London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, on September 29.

She will stay in London till October 3.

After wrapping up her visit, the prime minister will leave London for home and scheduled to reach Dhaka on October 4.

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"An MoU will be signed between the National Payments Corporation of India and the Bangladesh Bank to make transactions in rupees and taka between Bangladesh and India easier," said the foreign minister in a press conference at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Thursday.

Besides, the neighbouring countries are likely to sign two more memorandums of understanding regarding cooperation in agricultural researches, and extension of the existing cultural exchange programme for two years, said the foreign minister.

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