Dhaka, April 8 -- Bangladesh and the United Kingdom (UK) on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in public-private partnerships (PPPs), aiming to boost investment and sustainable infrastructure development in the aviation sector.

The MoU was signed by Chowdhury Ashik Mahmud Bin Harun, chief executive officer of the PPP Authority of Bangladesh, and Sarah Cooke, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, in the presence of UK Trade Envoy Baroness Rosie Winterton of Doncaster, according to a statement.

Baroness Winterton is visiting Dhaka this week to reinforce and expand the longstanding and mutually beneficial UK-Bangladesh trade and economic partnership, the statement issued by the British High Comm...