Foreign Affairs State Minister Humayun Kabir has said that no representative from Bangladesh will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in India.

He made the remarks on Thursday (September 10) while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of an international seminar on the Rohingya issue at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.

The state minister said Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was invited to the BRICS summit in his capacity as the chair of BIMSTEC, not as the prime minister of Bangladesh.

He also said Prime Minister Tarique Rahman would undertake a bilateral visit to India when a favourable environment is created.

The BRICS summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on Saturday and Sunday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited Bangladesh’s prime minister, as the chair of BIMSTEC, to attend the outreach session of the summit.