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KATHMANDU, (AFP) Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Morshed Khan held talks here Friday with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on bilateral and regional issues, a foreign ministry official said.

Khan arrived in the country Thursday to deliver an invitation to Deuba from Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to attend the 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Dhaka in January.

Khan Friday also met with Nepal's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Prakash Sharan Mahat, with the focus of their talks being expansion of trade and tourism, foreign ministry spokesman Durga Prasad Bhattarai said. In the afternoon he met industrialists to discuss problems they experience in trying to expand trade with Bangladesh on overland routes from landlocked Nepal through India, Bhattarai said.

Khan was to be received by King Gyanendra at the Royal Palace here late Friday. SAARC, formed in 1985, groups India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

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