'Sri Lanka wants to see Bangladesh as strategic partner'

Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Professor Sudarshan Seneviratne said that Sri Lanka wants to see Bangladesh as a strategic partner. He said that in the newly developed globalized world, the two countries need to take more care of each other.

A recent speech by Sudarshan Seneviratna on the occasion of 50 years of Bangladesh-Sri Lanka friendship was published in Sri Lankan media on Saturday (April 23).

In his speech, he said that both the countries are stakeholders of the larger family represented in SAARC, BIMSTEC and IORA. Dhaka and Colombo need to improve together. That is why Sri Lanka wants investment from Bangladesh.

The Sri Lankan High Commissioner said that the dynamics of the spheres of global power around the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal have increased. The desire for their involvement in the region is also growing.

"In the South Asia region, we are now witnessing a highly developed competitive attitude," he said. And the future of South Asia depends on it. This is because the global neoliberal political and economic system has begun to have an aggressive effect on the region. It can definitely change the balance of power and harmony between the countries of South Asia.

The Sri Lankan High Commissioner said, "I wish another 50 years of friendship and solidarity between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka." Private sector shipping companies in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have recently started joint ventures and government-owned shipping corporations are working together.