Kathmandu, 6 August: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has again offered Nepal to use Syedpur Airport and Mongla and Chittagong ports for mutual benefit. During a courtesy meeting with an eight-member parliamentary delegation led by  Pabitra Niroula Kharel, Chairperson of the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives of Federal Parliament at the latter’s office in Dhaka  yesterday she proposed those ports for the promotion of bilateral trade and commerce. Discussions in the meeting focused on ways to build on bilateral cooperation and further consolidate economic ties. Kharel stressed the need to enhance parliamentary exchanges between the two countries. She further stated that both countries could benefit if the cooperation on hydro-power, trade, and tourism sectors were expedited through the established mechanisms. Bangladeshi Prime Minister recalled the contribution and support of Nepali leaders during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 and expressed satisfaction over the state of excellent bilateral relations. She highlighted the potentials existing in the fields of trade, energy, tourism, education, and people-to-people contacts, and underlined the importance of cooperation under Bangladesh, Bhutan, India Nepal (BBIN) framework, according to Nepali embassy in Dhaka. People's News Monitoring Service