BD-Estonia’s bilateral trade levels low despite potentials

City Desk :
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has requested Estonia to consider expanding scholarship for Bangladeshi students.

He reiterated the importance of exchange/linkage programme between universities of Bangladesh and Estonia for cooperation in research on information technology and business, reports UNB.

Director General of the Asia Pacific region, Africa and Middle East and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Ambassador Kristi Karelsohn made a courtesy call on the Foreign Secretary at State Guest House Padma on April 1 and discussed the issues.

The Foreign Secretary thanked Ambassador Kristi Karelsohn for coming to Dhaka for the 1st Bilateral Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) between Bangladesh and Estonia.

He praised Estonia’s advancement in the ICT sector and sought the country’s assistance particularly in Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies.

Both Foreign Secretary and Ambassador Karelsohn agreed that bilateral trade and investment levels between the two countries are still very low and there are plenty of scopes to increase it.