The US deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asia has welcomed the agreements signed between Bangladesh and India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Dhaka.

“We look very positively of all agreements signed between India and Bangladesh,” Eileen O’Connor said to a question at a media engagement with a select group of diplomatic correspondents in Dhaka on Monday.

This was the first comment from a US official after Modi ended his two-day trip the day before.

She appreciated the connectivity deals and said, “We have been promoting a much more integrated region throughout South Asia and Central Asia because as you know, US has made a shift towards Asia.”

O’Connor arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a three-day visit ahead of a regional conference on counter-terrorism going to be held in Astana on June 29-30.How government and civil society can work together for countering violent extremism is her focus during the visit.O’Connor will also speak at a roundtable on “sexual harassment, gender-based violence and the role of media”.

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