Bangladesh to sign MoU with Saudi Arabia on military cooperation during Hasina’s visit

Bangladesh is set to sign an arrangement to improve military participation with Saudi Arabia amid Prime Minister Sheik Hasina's four-day visit to the Kingdom, Bangladesh's Foreign Minister A. H. Mahmood Ali said on Monday. 

Sheik Hasina, alongside her escort, left Dhaka on Tuesday on an exceptional Biman Bangladesh flight. The head is visiting the Kingdom on the welcome of King Salman. 

The update of comprehension on guard collaboration between the two nations is planned to be marked amid the gathering of Sheik Hasina and the Saudi lord on Wednesday in Riyadh. 

The remote priest did not give additionally subtle elements of the arrangement. 

Security investigators in Dhaka communicated their exclusive standards and respected any military collaboration with the Kingdom. 

Maj. Gen. (resigned) Abdur Rashid, an eminent Bangladesh security examiner, revealed to Arab News that any arrangement with Saudi Arabia will convey Bangladesh closer to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries and amid any crisis it will empower the nation to look for military help from cordial nations, including Saudi Arabia. 

"On the Rohingya issue, Bangladesh is accepting direct help from the OIC nations on various territorial and universal stages. So this sort of military concurrence with Riyadh will assist Bangladesh with gaining more help from the 

Saudi-coalition nations in the Middle East to determine the emergency," Rashid included. 

He said Saudi Arabia had been building a military coalition with Muslim nations as of late and, particularly after the Yemen emergency, this interest is presently felt significantly more than previously. 

"Any military participation arrangement ought to be founded on a win-win circumstance, and if Bangladesh consents to the arrangement with Saudi Arabia, it will expand the limit of the military partnership driven by Saudi Arabia, since Bangladesh is one of the biggest Muslim countries on the planet," Rashid included. 

Saudi Arabia holds an extremely solid military may among the Middle Eastern nations, and when the nation goes for any up-degree in its military power, it might impart the military coordinations to Bangladesh, which will in the end fortify the last's military limit. Rashid considers that this military arrangement will give Bangladesh a "vital preferred standpoint" in the protection field. 

As an outflow of fraternity, Bangladesh has remained adjacent to the Kingdom on a few events at various gatherings. This year, it partook in a 23-country joint military exercise driven by Saudi Arabia. 

Hasina visited the Kingdom in April to observe the last walk of the joint military powers. 

Amid her visit, the Bangladesh; chief will likewise sign another arrangement on collaboration in the data and correspondences innovation division. She is likewise planned to go to a business class in Riyadh sorted out by the Council of Saudi Chambers. 

Golam Moshi, Bangladesh's minister to Saudi Arabia, stated: "The Bangladesh PM will center around expanding the work movement in Saudi Arabia. She will likewise request more ventures from Saudi Arabia in sun oriented power, bond, extraordinary financial zones, and the oil-refining division of Bangladesh." 

Hasina will initiate the recently fabricated lasting Chancery working of the Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh on Wednesday. 

She will likewise establish the framework stone of the Bangladesh Consulate in Jeddah ashore Bangladesh purchased as of late. Hasina will play out the Umrah in Makkah on Thursday and is booked to return home the following day. 

She already visited Saudi Arabia in May 2017 and June 2016 as leader of the occupant Bangladesh government.