Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday said the government would increase manpower in Bangladesh’s missions abroad to provide better services to the expatriate Bangladeshis, The Daily Star Staff Correspondent Hasan Jahid Tusher reports from Rome.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Tuesday said the upcoming Copenhagen conference must agree on funding the victim countries grants, not loans, so that they can cope with the impacts of climate change.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday urged the Dutch businessmen to invest in Bangladesh in a big way and import its word-class non-traditional products. "There are huge potentials of investment in different sectors in Bangladesh like renewable energy, power generation, oil, gas and mineral exploration, information technology, tourism, telecommunication, agro-industry, pharmaceuticals, leather and leather goods, textiles and electronics," she said.
Foreign affairs minister Dipu Moni is optimistic that Bangladeshi products would get more facilities to enter the US with or without a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement between the two countries. She also stressed that Bangladesh wanted "trade, not aid." "TIFA or not TIFA, I am very hopeful that we will have to better access to the US market," she said at a seminar organised by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association at Sonargaon Hotel on Thursday.
Lack of coordination among different wings of the Bangladesh missions abroad jeopardised the country’s national interests in terms of overseas labour market prospects, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Thursday.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today called upon journalists to be careful while asking foreign diplomats for comments on internal affairs of the country. The minister was speaking at the opening session of a training programme for the journalists on current affairs at Foreign Service Academy in the city.
Bangladesh will request Mauritius to revoke its plan to send nearly 6,000 Bangladeshi workers back home by the yearend when foreign minister Dipu Moni will be touring the island nation next week, officials of the foreign and expatriates’ welfare ministries have told New Age.
The BNP’s secretary-general, Khandakar Delwar Hossain, on Monday blasted foreign minister Dipu Moni for saying that there was nothing to be worried about in spite of the mobilisation of troops by Myanmar and construction of barbed wire fence along Bangladesh’s border. ‘They have nothing to be worried and will not worry even if the country is occupied by foreigners. The role of the government is disquieting for the people who are concerned about the country’s security,’ he said.
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni yesterday said Myanmar's military mobilisation along Bangladesh border is routine movement of troops and rejected speculation that it had links with Dhaka's move seeking UN arbitration over maritime boundary with its neighbours. She was addressing a press briefing at foreign ministry yesterday.
Foreign minister Dipu Moni has said that settling the maritime boundary disputes with India and Myanmar is critical for Bangladesh's progress. She told reporters in Chandpur on Saturday, "Progress according to our development plans and ensuring best use of our limited resources absolutely requires retrieval of mineral resources from the sea." "It is critical that we settle sea boundary disputes with India and Myanmar."
