State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat, now on a visit to Mauritius, on Wednesday urged the Indian Ocean country to invest in the special economic zone in Bangladesh.
The state minister made the call in a bilateral meeting with Mauritius foreign affairs, regional integration and international trade minister Maneesh Gobin in Port Louis, said a press release received in Dhaka in the afternoon.
Different bilateral issues, including trade and investments as well as the matters of anthropological and cultural cooperation, were discussed in the meeting.
Arafat said that Mauritius was the gateway to the African continent. So, investment in the Indian Ocean Island would brighten Bangladesh鈥檚 business prospects in Africa.
Noting the similarities between Bangladesh and Mauritius in the areas of ethnicity and culture, Arafat said that Bangladesh gave high importance to the relations between the two countries.
He urged the Mauritius government to recruit more Bangladeshi workers and professionals and sought cooperation to allow Bangladeshi workers to send remittances easily in the shortest time to the country.
Arafat invited the Mauritius foreign minister to visit Bangladesh.
Mauritius foreign minister Maneesh Gobin conveyed congratulations to Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on her victory in the January 7 elections where Mauritius had sent an observer mission.
The state minister is on a visit to Mauritius to attend the first ministerial conference on 鈥楧rug Trafficking and Substance Abuse in the Western Indian Ocean鈥� scheduled for April 25.