Bangladesh and Thailand on Sunday stressed the importance of maintaining the momentum of the friendly and constructive bilateral engagements for raising the relations to a strategic level.
The two sides called for further exploring the untapped potentials for mutual benefits of the two countries.
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Bangladesh and Thailand are celebrating the 50 years of diplomatic relations in a befitting manner and with fervor through a series of events throughout this year.
As part of this celebration, an event to unveil a commemorative stamp and launching of an e-Book was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday.
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Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen and visiting Thai Permanent Secretary-designate Sarun Charoensuwan jointly unveiled the commemorative stamp and launched the e-Book.
The Foreign Secretary paid his tribute to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and to the martyrs of the great War of Liberation, and paid his homage to the late King Bhumibol of Thailand for his historic role in relation to the independence.
Both the Foreign Secretary and the Permanent Secretary expressed happiness at the friendly and multidimensional bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Thailand that flourished over the last five decades and evolved from strength to strength.
Thailand recognised Bangladesh on October 5, 1972 being one of the few countries that extended recognition to an independent and sovereign Bangladesh very early into her independence, according to the MoFA.
Source: United News of Bangladesh