New Delhi, Aug 10, 2022, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT/ TT

New Delhi, Aug 10: The 2nd India-Bangladesh Tri-services Staff Talks (TSST) were held here Wednesday to discuss the ongoing and new initiatives taken under the ambit of existing bilateral defence cooperation mechanism of all three services.

The meeting, co-chaired from the Indian side by Deputy Assistant Chief of Integrated Staff, IDC(A), HQ Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) Brigadier Vivek Narang and Director General Operation and Plan Directorate Armed Force Division from the Bangladesh side Brigadier General Husain Muhammad Rahaman, decided to further strengthen the bilateral defence engagements.

The meeting was conducted in a friendly, warm and cordial atmosphere, an official release said.

The TSST is a forum established to boost defence cooperation between both the nations through regular talks at the strategic and operational levels between HQ IDS and Bangladesh Armed Forces Division.