Bangladesh has always attached immense importance to Thailand, the emerging economic tiger and a prime investment paradise of Asia. Since the inception of Thailand’s Look West policy, bilateral relations between two countries has deepened and endured. Closer ties of friendship and constructive engagement in economic and security cooperation made Thailand a time tested and reliable partner of Bangladesh. Official visit of President Zia to Thailand in 1978 and Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra to Bangladesh in 2004 and high-level Ministerial exchange consolidated political as well as diplomatic ties between these two BIMSTEC countries. (more…)