The Ministers appreciated the growing strategic depth and dimensions of bilateral relations. He noted the similarities between Bangladesh's Indo-Pacific Outlook, the Indian Ocean Rim Association's Indo-Pacific Outlook and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. They reaffirmed their shared vision and willingness to work towards a region that is peaceful, stable, prosperous, inclusive and free from intimidation, interference and coercion.
The Ministers acknowledged the importance of building regional health security, promoting demographic resilience, enhancing multi-modal connectivity, and strengthening clean energy supply chains. The Ministers agreed on the importance of promoting open channels of communication and confidence-building measures to reduce the risk of conflict in the region.
The Ministers reaffirmed their support for sovereignty and territorial integrity, democratic values, human rights, freedom of navigation and overflight, and peaceful resolution of disputes in the IndoPacific. Australia and Bangladesh are committed to working together to find practical solutions to shared contemporary challenges, including countering maritime security threats, climate change, cyber crime and trafficking in persons.