NEW DELHI: Calling Bangladesh as India’s “closest” friend, President Pranab Mukherjee today said the country attaches high importance to its relations with the eastern neighbour.
The President said this while meeting the trainee officers of the Bangladesh foreign service, who called on him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mukherjee said he was delighted to see them as he called them “worthy representatives of a great nation”.
They will bring new ideas and a new system of governance, he said.
The President emphasised that to create a happy society was also the responsibility of modern governance.
He further added that he was confident that they would be able to carry forward the legacy of trust and amity between the two countries, as they pursue their career in the Bangladesh foreign service. (AGENCIES)
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