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No military base in Bangladesh: FM
Sun, Apr 8th, 2012 6:14 pm BdST
Dhaka, Apr 8 (bdnews24.com) – The government has no plans to allow military base of a foreign country in Bangladesh, the foreign minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday.
"We don't even keep it in our thought process," she asserted at a press briefing at her ministry.
She was responding to a question if the government would allow United States to set up a base.
"There are six or seven US military personnel getting training here," the foreign minister added.
About Bangladesh-US security dialogue, she said it is a routine matter and Dhaka holds such meetings with many countries.
The US assistance secretary for military and security would attend a security dialogue on Apr 19 in Dhaka.
"We have multidimensional relationship with US including trade, governance and uprooting terrorism and security dialogue is part of it," Moni clarified.
"We have security cooperation and how we can strengthen it will be discussed in the dialogue."
When her attention was drawn to a recent comment of an Indian senior official claiming that Bangladesh was being used by terrorists, the minister said the government would now allow terrorists to "use an inch of the land of this country".
"The government is determined to stop terrorist activities in the country," she added.
Joint commission
The minister said she proposed a joint commission between Bangladesh and United States to discuss entire gamut of issues on a periodic basis.
"I proposed this when Wendy Sherman (US undersecretary for political affairs of state department) met me," she said.
Moni and Sherman had a meeting on Friday.
"We have robust engagement and discussion can occur also through foreign office consultation," she said.
TICFA
The minister said Bangladesh and United States were 'very close' to signing trade and investment cooperation framework agreement.
"There are some differences and we are negotiating with the US authorities to remove them," she said.
"There should be a consensus on labour and other issues related to trade," she added.
BNP bashing
The minister took a swipe at the opposition BNP for taking back their appreciation over the verdict on the maritime boundary dispute with Myanmar.
"The whole nation is happy but the opposition party does not have the attitude to join in. It is very unfortunate and shameful," she added.
Honour foreign friends
Bangladesh is likely to arrange one or more programmes to honour foreign friends in this year, Moni said.
"We have already identified 568 foreign friends and it may increase in the coming days," she adding, "It is a continuous process."
bdnews24.com/ssz/bd/1721h
No military base in Bangladesh: FM | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
I hope this answers to some of the trolling in this thread.
Sun, Apr 8th, 2012 6:14 pm BdST
Dhaka, Apr 8 (bdnews24.com) – The government has no plans to allow military base of a foreign country in Bangladesh, the foreign minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday.
"We don't even keep it in our thought process," she asserted at a press briefing at her ministry.
She was responding to a question if the government would allow United States to set up a base.
"There are six or seven US military personnel getting training here," the foreign minister added.
About Bangladesh-US security dialogue, she said it is a routine matter and Dhaka holds such meetings with many countries.
The US assistance secretary for military and security would attend a security dialogue on Apr 19 in Dhaka.
"We have multidimensional relationship with US including trade, governance and uprooting terrorism and security dialogue is part of it," Moni clarified.
"We have security cooperation and how we can strengthen it will be discussed in the dialogue."
When her attention was drawn to a recent comment of an Indian senior official claiming that Bangladesh was being used by terrorists, the minister said the government would now allow terrorists to "use an inch of the land of this country".
"The government is determined to stop terrorist activities in the country," she added.
Joint commission
The minister said she proposed a joint commission between Bangladesh and United States to discuss entire gamut of issues on a periodic basis.
"I proposed this when Wendy Sherman (US undersecretary for political affairs of state department) met me," she said.
Moni and Sherman had a meeting on Friday.
"We have robust engagement and discussion can occur also through foreign office consultation," she said.
TICFA
The minister said Bangladesh and United States were 'very close' to signing trade and investment cooperation framework agreement.
"There are some differences and we are negotiating with the US authorities to remove them," she said.
"There should be a consensus on labour and other issues related to trade," she added.
BNP bashing
The minister took a swipe at the opposition BNP for taking back their appreciation over the verdict on the maritime boundary dispute with Myanmar.
"The whole nation is happy but the opposition party does not have the attitude to join in. It is very unfortunate and shameful," she added.
Honour foreign friends
Bangladesh is likely to arrange one or more programmes to honour foreign friends in this year, Moni said.
"We have already identified 568 foreign friends and it may increase in the coming days," she adding, "It is a continuous process."
bdnews24.com/ssz/bd/1721h
No military base in Bangladesh: FM | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
I hope this answers to some of the trolling in this thread.