The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that that foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen’s meeting with the diplomats of 90 countries in Delhi regarding the upcoming national elections in Bangladesh was surprising.
‘Yesterday [Saturday] the foreign secretary of Bangladesh held a meeting with the diplomats of 90 countries in Delhi… Why did you have to go to Delhi for a meeting? Why did India organise it?’ BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said a virtual press conference.
Rizvi said, if India was a democratic state, then they should have stood for the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh.
‘Today, Europe and America are vocal in favour of the democracy-loving people of Bangladesh. The meeting of diplomats of 90 countries in Delhi to work on behalf of the government in which the common people of the country are oppressed by one-party misrule seems to us surprising,’ he said.
A Times of India report on Saturday said, Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen, who is in Delhi for Foreign Office Consultations, on Saturday said he has reached out to around 90 heads of missions in the Indian capital about the foreign policy priorities of the Sheikh Hasina government and preparedness for the general elections to be held in January.
The Bangladesh foreign secretary told that he briefed the envoys about the country’s position on various geopolitical and contemporary issues.
Masud Bin Momen said Bangladesh has made economic progress, has ‘socio-economy and political stability’ and the country has growing importance in the regional and global platforms.
The Bangladesh foreign secretary said he urged envoys to consider opening diplomatic missions in Dhaka.
Foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen on Friday evening briefed the heads of around 90 missions based in New Delhi, who are concurrently accredited to Bangladesh, about the country’s next national election scheduled for January 7.
