Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh is committed and has been ensuring security of all foreign diplomats stationed here as per Vienna Convention.
“We are committed, we guarantee the safety and security of all the diplomats (stationed here) ... we follow the Vienna Convention word by word,” he told the reporters at his foreign ministry office here.
The foreign minister made the remarks while replying to a query on the US embassy concern over the security of its employees in Bangladesh.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is expecting to carry its passengers to Canadian west coastal major city Vancouver and the US city of Los Angeles collaborating with Air Canada through code sharing via Narita of Japan by January next.
"We have already received positive reply from Air Canada regarding code sharing agreement ... and we are expecting to make it effective by third week of January," Biman Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shafiul Azim told BSS today.
Code sharing is a marketing arrangement in which an airline places its designator code on a flight operated by another airline, and sells tickets for that flight.
SAVAR: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ICT Affairs Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy today expressed his optimism that the country youths will play the leading role in turning the country into a developed one within next 10-15 years.
“None can even imagine that Bangladesh can make such development within only 15 years. When we started our journey, Bangladesh was poor country but now it turns into a middle income one. Bangladesh will become a developed nation within next 10-15 years and the youths will act as the leaders here,” he said.
Joy, also Bangabandhu grandson and Chairman of Centre for Research and Information (CRI), was addressing the seventh edition of Joy Bangla Youth Award giving ceremony at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Youth Development in the city outskirts Savar.
NEW DELHI: Indian position on Bangladesh even after announcement of polls schedule remains the same as it was stated earlier after the recently held India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.
"We have been repeatedly highlighted our position on Bangladeshi election...as well as this is something people of Bangladesh have to decide themselves...," Spokesperson of Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Arindam Bagchi told the regular media briefing here this afternoon.
Asked about political developments in Bangladesh after announcement of election schedule, he categorically said that "People of Bangladesh and their democratic system will work it out in this regard".