Dhaka, Aug. 3 -- Bangladesh has urged India to prevent deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina from making political speeches from Indian territory, warning that such statements risk destabilizing bilateral relations, its foreign ministry said on Monday.

The issue was raised in a meeting between the newly appointed High Commissioner of India to Dhaka, Dinesh Trivedi and Humaiun Kobir, the Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh this afternoon at the Prime Minister's Office in Tejgaon, Dhaka.

Trivedi had paid a courtesy call on Kobir during the meeting; various aspects of the existing bilateral relations between the two countries as well as issues of mutual interest, were discussed. Both sides expressed optimism about fu...