Bangladesh delegation led by Iqbal Hassan Mahmood, MP, Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources paid courtesy call on Sifi Ghrieb, Prime Minister of Algeria yesterday.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir, Bangladesh and Bangladesh Ambassador to Algeria accompanied the delegation.

They discussed wide range of issues to further advancing the bilateral relations for mutual benefit between Bangladesh and Algeria.

The Power, Energy and Mineral Resource Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood said that there are huge scope of cooperation in areas of trade, investment, agriculture, fertilizers, education, science, technology, sports, culture etc.

He called for enhancing trade and investment in the field of energy for the benefit of the people of two countries. He urged the Algerian authority to collaborate for organizing knowledge sharing, training programme for engineers and experts in this field.

The State Minister expressed satisfaction for signing the MOU on cooperation in the field of hydrocarbon between Bangladesh and Algeria.

He commented that this engagement had opened a new horizon for Bangladesh to import LNG, LPG and other petroleum products from Algeria under G2G mechanism and created avenues to have best practices in developing LNG infrastructures, exploring coal and gas field in Bangladesh.

He expressed the importance of exchanging high level visits to further consolidate the existing bilateral relations between the two countries.

Prime Minister of Algeria said that the Government of Algeria gave due importance to further enhance the bilateral relations with Bangladesh. He responded that there are ample scope of complimentary of trade and commerce and investment between the two brotherly countries.