Dhaka, May 5 -- Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday proposed to form a "Joint Business Task Force" coordinated by the apex business bodies of Bangladesh and the Gambia to expand trade cooperation between the two countries.

He made the proposed during a bilateral talk with his Gambian counter Dr Mamadou Tangara on Friday on the sidelines of the OIC's 15th Summit Pre-preparatory Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Banjul, Gambia, a foreign ministry's press release said in Dhaka.

During the meeting, the Gambian foreign minister praised Bangladesh's remarkable success in the agricultural sector and expressed his intention to expand trade cooperation between the two countries.

He also expressed his deep appreciation to Prime Minister ...