Momen-Hina Rabbani hold meeting in Colombo

News Desk :
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen held a meeting with Pakistan’s state minister for foreign affairs Hina Rabbani Khar in Colombo. The two of them met Saturday, on the sidelines of Sri Lanka’s 75th Independence Day celebrations. During the meeting they discussed trade, economy and other issues of shared interest.
Spokesperson of Pakistan’s foreign ministry, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, tweeted the news this afternoon. Bangladesh’s foreign ministry, however, did not mention the meeting with Hina Rabbani, though it posted several other tweets regarding Abdul Momen’s Colombo visit.
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen arrived in Colombo on Friday to join Sri Lanka’s 75th Independence Day
celebrations. Sri Lanka.
Radio Pakistan quoted Hina Rabbani as saying they were satisfied that the pace of bilateral trade with Bangladesh had picked up. She stressed strengthening of economic, trade and investment ties and the need to increase contact between the people of the two countries.