Dhaka, May 6 -- Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Susan Ryle paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Wednesday afternoon, discussing a wide range of matters of mutual interests.

Law and order, security cooperation, irregular migration, the Rohingya crisis, police training and capacity building, and Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) were among the topics that were discussed at the meeting.

The High Commissioner mentioned that Australia and Bangladesh have shared a strong bilateral relationship since independence, highlighting that Australia was among the first developed nations to recognise Bangladesh.

Currently, approximately 100,000 Bangladeshis reside in Australia, including around...