GENEVA: Bangladesh today assured India that it will not allow its territory to be used for extremist activities against India.The assurance was given by Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury during her meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on the sidelines of the 131st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) here.Mahajan took the opportunity to express India's readiness to take Parliamentary cooperation to a higher level through greater exchanges among Parliamentarians and offered training to members and officers of Bangladesh Parliament "The Bangladesh Speaker assured her (Mahajan) that the people and government of Bangladesh would never allow any extremist activity against India to take roots on the Bangladeshi soil," a Lok Sabha Secretariat release said.Thanking India for its support during elections for the post of chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Bangladesh also said that it would extend all support to India in the Commonwealth.Mahajan said that India gives utmost importance to its relationship with its neighbours."While assuring her Bangladesh counterpart that India supported the government and people of Bangladesh in addressing the common challenges confronting the two countries, Mahajan said that the Indian Parliament will be happy to offer training to the Members and officers of the Bangladesh Parliament," the official statement said.She (Mahajan) also expressed her desire to take parliamentary cooperation to a higher level through greater exchanges among Parliamentarians.She highlighted that in India, legislations and policies have helped in creating a conducive environment for empowering women economically and socially.Mahajan said that India was proactively working for providing one third reservation for women in Parliament and Legislative Assemblies.