The 14th-century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta identified Sultan Salahuddin Salih as a Bengali and credited him for the establishment of a new dynasty in the Maldives including his son Omar I and a granddaughter, Khadijah.

[7] Maldives closed its High Commission in Dhaka in March 2014 after the foreign ministry budget was slashed by 40 percent.

Bangladesh offered to pay rent for embassy premises among other local costs but was refused "politely" by Maldives.

[9] The BNS Somudra Avijan delivered to the Maldives more than 100 metric tons of food, medicine and medical equipment in COVID-19 pandemic assistance in April 2020.

Ahmed Tholal, the Vice President of Human Rights Commission in Maldives, called the government move unconstitutional.