India’s High Commissioner to Dhaka, Dinesh Trivedi, said India’s people and Prime Minister Narendra Modi want good relations with Bangladesh. Speaking to reporters after meeting Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed at the Secretariat on Monday afternoon, Trivedi said he hoped positive developments would come in the future.

Trivedi said Bangladesh and India have democratic issues, and that such issues will remain, describing this as part of democracy’s beauty. He said relations between the two countries would be resolved through dialogue despite those issues. He also said he was pleased to meet the prime minister and the home minister.

The high commissioner said the discussions had been held in a very cordial manner. He added that the affection, warmth and love he had received during his two months in Bangladesh had genuinely overwhelmed him. The report did not specify the subjects discussed at the meeting or identify any particular decision concerning bilateral relations.