Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers and Foreign Minister of BIH Zlatko Lagumdžija in Official Visit to India



Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Foreign Minister of BIH dr Zlatko Lagumdžija stays in official visit to India, on invitation of Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India Salman Khurshid.

On the first day of his trip, March 25, Dr Lagumdžija met in separate meetings in New Delhi with Minister of External Affairs of India Salman Khurshdi and State Minister for External Affairs of the Republic of India Preneet Kaur, and laid flowers at the Raj Ghat Memorial Centre and paid tribute to Mahatma Ghandi. Dr Lagumdžija, then, held a lecture at the Amity University, where he was appointed for an honorary professor at this prestigious University.

During their meeting, Dr. Lagumdžija and Minister Khurshid expressed their mutual satisfaction with high quality political relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and India, hopeful of their further improvement. Assessing the relations between the two stats as a good example of a friendly cooperation, both at bilateral and multilateral levels, they exchanged information of current developments in the two states, and their relative foreign policy priorities and positions.

Dr Lagumdžija stressed the importance and satisfaction if a decision of the Government of the Republic of India to open the Embassy in Sarajevo would be realised soon, assessing that it would be an extraordinary message of deep friendship and appreciation that India holds for BIH. Dr Lagumdžija thanked to Minister Khurshid for his invitation to visit India, expressing his hope that the arrival of state-economic delegation of BIH to India would boost further development of bilateral relations, exchange of high-level visits, direct contacts of businessmen of the two states and concrete forms of economic and commercial cooperation.

In the sequel of talks, the heads of diplomacy of BIH and India exchanged their views on various international issues, like unrests and clashes in different regions, global economic and financial crisis, global threat of terrorism, United Nations reform and developments in Middle Asia and South East Europe.

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