Online Desk: Bangladesh and Egypt have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation by organising regular foreign office consultations.

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry had a meeting on Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of the opening session of the 15th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit in Gambia and discussed issues related to mutual interest, including increasing trade and investment between the two countries and the Rohingya crisis.

At the meeting, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud proposed mutual visa exemption and trade expansion with Egypt and the Egyptian foreign minister initially agreed in principle to sign an agreement on diplomatic and official visa exemption

Besides, the Egyptian foreign minister assured that his government would give full support to the construction of the Chancery building of the Bangladesh mission in Egypt.

After that, Secretary General of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) Deemah Al Yahya paid a courtesy call to Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud.

The Secretary General informed the Foreign Minister that the member states of DCO are drafting an agreement titled ‘Multilateral AI Agreement’ on International Use of Artificial Intelligence.

Deemah Al Yahya expressed sincere interest when the Foreign Minister invited him to visit Bangladesh to see the progress of Bangladesh in the field of information and communication technology.

He hoped that there would be an opportunity to expand the field of cooperation of DCO with Bangladesh in the field of information and communication technology through this visit.