, May 16 -- Bangladesh has expressed strong interest in forging a long-term, government-to-government (G2G) energy cooperation arrangement with Angola and invited an Angolan technical team to visit Dhaka at the earliest opportunity for formal negotiations.

At the first-ever high-level bilateral energy dialogue between the two countries, Bangladesh indicated its own readiness to send a reciprocal technical mission to Luanda to advance discussions.

The Bangladesh side urged the early conclusion of the proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on energy cooperation to provide a formal institutional framework for the partnership.

The Bangladesh delegation outlined the country's growing energy needs and its strategic imperative to diversif...