This will be the first physical JCC meeting since the onset of Covid-19

​India and Bangladesh will hold the 7th Meeting of the Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) in New Delhi on Sunday.

The JCC will be co-chaired by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday.

According to the MEA, the JCC will review the entire gamut of bilateral relations, including cooperation in the wake of Covid-19, border management and security, trade & investment, connectivity, energy, water resources, development partnership and regional & multilateral issues.

The 7th JCC will be held less than two months after Jaishankar visited Bangladesh and handed over a personal invitation to visit India from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

During his visit on April 28, Jaishankar had also met his Bangladeshi counterpart and formally invited him for the JCC.

This will be the first physical JCC meeting convened since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The last JCC between India and Bangladesh had taken place in September 2020, in virtual mode.