Bangladesh will welcome any government in Afghanistan if that is of the people of that country, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said today.
"If Taliban forms the government and that is a government of people, our door will remain open for them obviously," Momen told journalists following the memorandum signing ceremony to bottle, label and dispense China's Sinopharm Covid vaccines in Bangladesh.
He said, "Afghanistan is a member of SAARC, a friendly country -- we want their development. We will accept any government if that is a government of the people."
About the statement of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam that some Bangladeshis have left for Afghanistan to join the war as part of the Taliban, the minister said, "[They were] not Taliban. There were few terrorists in our country who had been trained in Afghanistan. We have already evicted them. Now there are no such terrorists in our country."
