State Minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam today said the government is not worried about the US Visa restriction as Washington started imposing it on Bangladeshi individuals responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the country democratic election process.
“We have nothing to lose, we are not worried about it because we are not doing anything wrong,” he told reporters at a briefing at his residence in Gulshan tonight hours after the US state department came up with the announcement.
He, however, called the development “not a pleasing experience” but added “we have to go through it”.
The United States Department of States today
said it is taking steps to impose visa restrictions on Bangladeshi
individuals responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic
election process in Bangladesh.
"These individuals include members of law enforcement, the ruling party, and
the political opposition," said State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller
in a statement today.
He said the US is committed to supporting free and fair elections in
Bangladesh that are carried out in a peaceful manner.
NEW DELHI: New Delhi said Thursday is seeking the reduction of Canadian diplomatic staff in India and has stopped visa services, as a row over the killing of a Sikh separatist deepens.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has demanded India treat with "utmost seriousness" allegations that Indian agents played a role in the June murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver.
The fallout prompted tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions and a forceful denial from India, which said any suggestion it played a role in Nijjar killing was "absurd".
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has signed the Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) to protect the world oceans and rivers from the damage due to fragile marine environment by overfishing and other human activities.
The agreement was signed on Wednesday under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at the Ground Floor, General assembly Building, Treaty Event area here, said Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen while briefing newsmen about the Prime Minister engagements on the sidelines of the 78th UNGA session.
The treaty gave consent to management and preservation of the genetic resources describing those as the common heritage.