The European Union expressed its satisfaction at the judicial process followed in the trial of the killing of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. ‘We see it [the process of trial] respectable,’ the head of the EU Delegation to Bangladesh, Stefan Frowein, said at the foreign ministry in reply to a question of New Age on whether the EU had any question on the procedure of trial of the killers.
In a major development on the diplomatic front, the European Union stood opposed to the death penalty in what they called politically-motivated cases like murders of Bangabandhu, killings committed during the BDR mutiny and also war crimes.
The export of freshwater shrimp, country’s second-biggest foreign-currency earner, to the European Union (EU) resumes Monday after six months’ suspension since last June following a perceived act of disservice.
The United States and European Union have emphasised protection of natural environment along the Bangladesh coast and compliance with safety standards and international regulations for shrimp cultivation and catching of marine fishes, according to Western diplomats here.
Shrimp exporters are set to ease a self-imposed ban on exports to the European Union after initiatives to eliminate contamination of frozen goods by a toxic antibiotic begin to take hold.
The European Union applauded as 2009 brought a smooth emergence of democracy back on the rails in Bangladesh after the parliamentary elections and called on the country’s political parties to seek new solutions to the challenges of its governance.
BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday apprised the party's stand to the visiting EU delegation when it met with him at his residence Wednesday afternoon.
A delegation of European Union led by Zsolt Bartfai
holding a meeting with BNP Secretary General Khandkar Delwar
Hossain at the latter's NAM Flat residence in the city on
Wednesday.
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