Dhaka, May 21 -- The third Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting between Bangladesh and Malaysia on safe labour migration and labour market cooperation began on Wednesday at a city hotel, aiming to resume formal labour recruitment.

High-level government representatives from both countries are attending the two-day meeting which is expected to end with a formal declaration paving the way for the resumption of legal labour migration from Bangladesh to Malaysia.

A seven-member Malaysian delegation, led by Dr Mohd Shaharin bin Umar, Deputy Secretary-General of Malaysia's Ministry of Human Resources, is participating in the meeting.

Dr Lutfie Siddique, Special Envoy of the Chief Adviser on International Affairs, and Dr Neamat Ullah Bhuiyan, Sen...