DHAKA: India Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan assured that some important agreements including most expected Teesta water sharing pact will be inked during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bangladesh.

The Speaker came up with this assertion in a courtesy meeting with Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad deputy speaker M Fazle Rabbi Miah in Vietnam on Monday.

Jatiya Sangsad Public Relations Department issued a press release in this regard on Tuesday.

However, M Fazle Rabbi has been leading the Bangladesh parliamentary delegation in 132nd Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU).

During the courtesy call, the deputy speaker expressed his gratefulness for India’s cooperation in Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and also its support in Commonwealth Parliamentary Association election (CPA).

The Indian Speaker assured Fazle Rabbi that during India premier Modi’s Bangladesh visit treaties on river Teesta and international border, among other important pacts, will be signed.

However, Bangladesh deputy speaker met his counterparts of Bhutan and Maldives. They discussed about bilateral issues and mutual benefits for the countries.

Moreover, Begum Waseka Ayesha Khan MP has been elected as parliamentarian of Coordinated Committee of Women under IPU and Abul Kalam Azad elected as member of Standing Committee on Peace and Security.

MPs M Nabi Newaz, ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury, Nurul Islam Milon, Abul Kalam Azad, Yusuf Abdullah Harun, Razi M Fakhrul, among others, are in the delegation.

BDST: 2055 HRS, MAR 31, 2015