Dhaka, Jan 13 (Inditop.com) Terming her visit to New Delhi “100 percent successful”, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday said the treaties signed with India would not only help bilaterally, but would “benefit the people of entire South Asia”.
She told the media on her return from a four-day sojourn that her trip was aimed at “establishing peace in South Asia and strengthening relationships between neighbours”.
She received a rousing welcome from leaders and cadres of her Awami League, who thronged the Zia Intrnational Airpoert and the road to the city, Star Online web site of The Daily Star reported.
She announced that she would donate the Rs.2.5 million prize money of the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development that was conferred on her yesterday to the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust named after her father and Bangladesh’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The money would be spent for the education of poor children.
