No intention to sideline India: Bangladesh denies forming alliance with China, Pak
Bangladesh interim government of Muhammad Yunus on Thursday dismissed the idea of any emerging alliance between Dhaka, Beijing and Islamabad, saying the recent meeting between the three countries was not 'political'.'We are not forming any alliance,' foreign affairs adviser M Touhid Hossain told reporters at the foreign ministry, when asked for comments about the trilateral meeting in China's Kunming on June 19.advertisement'It was a meeting at the official level, not at the political level,' Hossain said, adding that there was 'no element of formation of any alliance'.
Asked if the meeting was intended to sideline India, Hossain asserted, 'It is certainly not (about) targeting a third-party (which) I can assure you.'The foreign ministry in an earlier statement said representatives from Bangladesh, China and Pakistan held an 'informal trilateral meeting' on the sidelines of two Beijing-sponsored regional events, the China-South Asia Exposition and the China-South Asia Cooperation Forum in Kunming.China and Pakistan issued separate statements on the meeting while Beijing said the three countries held 'extensive discussions on trilateral cooperation' and agreed to move forward based on 'good-neighbourliness, mutual trust, equality, openness, inclusiveness and shared development'.Islamabad, on the other hand, described the gathering as the 'inaugural meeting of the Bangladesh-China-Pakistan trilateral mechanism' while both the countries said the meeting decided to form a 'joint working group'.- EndsMust Watch
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