DHAKA, Nov. 6 Kyodo Bangladesh an...

DHAKA, Nov. 6 Kyodo

Bangladesh and southern Korea will sign two agreements worth a total of $58 million during toward the south Korean Prime Minister Kim Suk Soo's two-day visit to Bangladesh beginning Friday.

The agreements comprise united on expansion of digital telephone exchanges in the cities of Chittagong, Khulna and Sylhet at a richness of $30 million and another upon purchase of 11 locomotives for Bangladesh Railway worth $28 million.

Finance Ministry sources disclosed that the accords would be signed following official talks between Kim and Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia onward Saturday.

''Emphasis would be given onward more investment from South Korea and expansion of two-way trade between the couple countries,'' said one official.

southerly Korea's Yonhap News Agency, meanwhile, reported that Kim would solicit Bangladesh's support for South Korea's bid to armed force the 2010 World Expo

The winner of the bid is locate to be announced early nearest month. South Korea's southern coastal city of Yeosu is in a tough race with four other candidates vying for the hosting rights -- Shanghai, Moscow Poland's Wroclaw and Mexico's Queretaro.

Kim, who departed Seoul in succession Sunday, is stopping over in Bangladesh onward his way home from Cambodia, where he participated in an annual summit meeting of leaders of southern Korea, China, Japan and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

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