India-Bangladesh fuel pipeline will ensure energy security: Hasina
Bangladesh's Premier Sheikh Hasina said the Bangladesh-India Friendship Pipeline will play a pivotal role in ensuring fuel security in Bangladesh while many countries across the world are facing severe fuel crises due to the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Prime Minister said this while inaugurating the 131.57-km cross-border India-Bangladesh friendship pipeline as part of energy sector cooperation between the two neighbouring countries through which Bangladesh will import petroleum, especially diesel from India.
Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the newly built pipeline.
Bangladesh's Premier was connected from her official residence Gono Bhaban while Modi was connected from his office.
Prime Minister Hasina said that both Bangladesh and India have materialised many possibilities in the recent past regarding the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India.
'We have settled all our bilateral problems one by one,' she said. She mentioned that both the neighbouring countries are working together for their development.
Sheikh Hasina said that India is a genuine friend of Bangladesh. She mentioned that this pipeline is a trademark achievement of cooperation between the two friendly nations.