Bangkok/New Delhi, April 3 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said today that India's North-Eastern region is emerging as a connectivity hub for the BIMSTEC, with its network of roads, railways, waterways, grids and pipelines.
Addressing the 20th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok, the EAM said that completion of the Trilateral Highway will connect India's North East all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and become a veritable game-changer.
He said that India is aware of its special responsibility in regard to BIMSTEC, as it has the longest coastline in the Bay of Bengal, of almost 6500km. India also shares borders with five of the BIMSTEC members, and connects most of them, and also provides much of the interface between the Indi...