Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has expressed his anger for the recent remarks by the US State Department on Bangladesh. He also blamed State Department correspondent and US based journalist Mushfiqul Fazal, without directly mentioning his name, for raising the Bangladesh issue at the regular briefing.
Momen said the news regarding Wednesday’s incident reached Washington before it had happened in Dhaka because of a Bangladeshi journalist who has access to the White House and the United Nations. “May be that’s why the US was so prompt.”
He said like the US, Bangladesh also does not want to see any conflict. “We will maintain maximum restraint.”
The minister made the remarks while addressing journalists in Cox’s Bazar.
Momen said that the American government will not agree to large public meetings on the streets, even in front of the White House. “They will not allow meetings on the streets of Manhattan, New York. There is a rule and system.”
He also said, “We don't want to obstruct our pedestrians.”
The Foreign Minister said if the BNP wants to hold demonstration and rally and they can surely do it inside the hall or in the open field as well.
He said the government believes in freedom of speech and there is no such freedom like Bangladesh in other countries.
Source: UNB
