2024-04-15 10:46:33
Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud said, Somali pirates have released our sailors safely. The sailors have already come within 100 nautical miles of Somalia. A European ship is guiding them.
On Sunday (April 14) evening, Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud. He said these things while talking to reporters after the meeting.
Dr. Hasan Mahmud also said that when a ship goes to Europe, armed-guards are hired. When I investigated the matter, they said they were about 1,000 nautical miles away. That is why armed guards were not hired. This would not have happened if it had been rented. Pirates also keep track of which ships have armed guards and which ships do not. The relief is that we were able to rescue our sailors in quick time.
The Foreign Minister said, they (Antigua and Barbuda) want our country’s cooperation for training in the hospital sector in their country. Since we have Tourism and Hospital Department in Dhaka University, students can go there if West Indies University has an agreement with that department. We discussed that scholarships should be given to our students. They proposed to us, want to introduce airport entry visa for Bangladeshi passport holders, we discussed the matter. The whole matter should be checked first.
He said, there was a discussion about taking pharmaceutical products from our country. We export pharmaceutical products to 140 countries. We discussed that our pharmaceutical products go to their country as well. Discussions were held on how to export our leather, ceramics, garment products more widely.
Regarding the Iran-Israel tension, he said, Bangladesh is absolutely clear, we are against any war. We want peace in the world, stop all wars. We want an immediate end to the indiscriminate killing of women and children, ordinary people, crimes against humanity in Gaza.
He said that 180 BJP members had fled from Myanmar. They are in court. 9 new people came today. We are in talks to get them back. Myanmar has offered to take them back to the river. We offered to fly them. At first they agreed to take it by air but later they offered to take it by sea.