Seoul, Jan 19 (AP/UNB) — When athletes from the rival Koreas paraded together behind a single flag for the first time at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it was a highly emotional event that came on a…
Category: Diplomacy
Myanmar sends BD 1300 names of ARSA members
Myanmar has sent a list containing names of more than 1,300 Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) “terrorist members” to Bangladesh.
Bangladesh attractive place for diplomacy: Pranab Mukherjee
Visiting former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said Bangladesh is now an attractive place for investment.Pranab Mukherjee said this when he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban. After the meeting, Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsanul…
First camp for Rohingya to be ready next week: Yangon
Myanmar officials say a camp to house Rohingya Muslim and Hindu refugees who return from Bangladesh will be ready by its promised deadline next week. Myanmar and Bangladesh had signed an agreement in November to repatriate Rohingya and had set…
Dhaka-Delhi MoU on medicinal plants soon: Indian HC
Dhaka, Jan 13 – Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday said Bangladesh and India are now in negotiations to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) soon for cooperation in the field of medicinal plants.
Mother tongue won’t go under the stress of civilisation: PM
Dhaka, Jan 13 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said it is not expected that the mother tongue will be lost under the ‘stress of civilisation’. “Time is changing and the civilisation is marching forward with the invention of…
Physical arrangement for Rohingya repatriation Monday
Bangladesh and Myanmar are likely to finalise an agreement on the ‘physical arrangement’ on Monday to start the repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar. A 14-member Bangladesh delegation, led by Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque, will leave here for…
Dhaka for new beginning with Yangon thru’ Rohingya deal
Dhaka, Jan 10 – Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Wednesday said the issue of Rohingya influx with Myanmar remained as an irritant in bilateral relations between the two countries and hoped there will be a new beginning with Myanmar…
Dhaka needs to engage Delhi, Beijing on trade-investment
Dhaka, Jan 10 – Bangladesh needs to proactively engage the two economic powers – India and China – on trade and investment, said a leading economist on Wednesday.
North and South Korea agrees to first talk in two years
North and South Korea agreed on Friday to hold their first talks in more than two years, hours after Seoul and Washington decided to defer joint military exercises which always infuriate Pyongyang until after the Winter Olympics. The meeting, the…
North Korea accepts Olympics talks offer, says South
North Korea has accepted an offer to attend high-level talks next week, South Korean officials have said. The meeting, on 9 January, will focus on finding a way for North Korean athletes to attend the Winter Olympic Games in South…
China backs Pak after Trump tweet
China today defended Pakistan saying the world community should acknowledge its all-weather ally’s “outstanding contribution” to counter terrorism, a day after US President Donald Trump lashed out at Islamabad for providing safe havens to terrorists. Mr Trump had on Monday…
Pakistan summons US Ambassador over Trump tweet
Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador, an embassy spokesman said Tuesday, a rare public rebuke after Donald Trump lashed out at Islamabad with threats to cut aid over “lies” about militancy. Ambassador David Hale was asked to go to the…
India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations
India and Pakistan exchanged a list of their nuclear installations on Monday, officials said. The exchange was carried out through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, Indian’s foreign ministry officials said.
3 BSF members detained at Rajshahi border
Rajshahi, Dec 25 – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained three members of Border Security Force (BSF) of India from Char Majhar Diyar area in Godagari Upazila on Monday morning over their illegal intrusion into Bangladesh territory.
Turkey seeks permanent solution to Rohingya crisis
Dhaka, Dec 19 – Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Tuesday told BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia that their country has been working for a permanent solution to Rohingya crisis as it thinks Myanmar nationals who fled persecution in Rakhine…
Turkish PM pays homage to martyrs – Bangabandhu
Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday visited the National Mausoleum and paid respect to the martyrs placing wreaths. The Turkish Prime Minister also signed visitors’ book and planted a sapling there. Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf…
BD-Myanmar form joint working group for Rohingya repatriation
Bangladesh and Myanmar on Tuesday formed a joint working group to start next step of work for repatriation of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh and signed the terms of reference (TOR). The agreed TOR mandates the JWG to undertake all necessary…
Turkish PM to have talks on Rohingya issue Tuesday – visit camp
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrived here on Monday night on a two-day official visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to discuss Rohingya and other issues. The Turkish PM is leading a 21-member delegation, including his…
Working groups for Rohingya repatriation talks Tuesday
Bangladesh and Myanmar will hold talks here on Tuesday morning to finalise the formation of a joint working group to start the repatriation of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. A delegation, led by Myanmar’s Permanent Secretary Myint Thu arrived, here on…
BD-Myanmar talks on working group formation Tuesday
Dhaka, Dec 17 – A six-member delegation from Myanmar arrives here on Monday evening to take forward the process of forming a joint working group to start the repatriation of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh.
Delhi-based envoys call for return of Myanmar nationals
Dhaka, Dec 17 – Ambassadors, high commissioners and diplomats of concurrently accredited countries to Bangladesh with residences in New Delhi on Sunday called for ensuring the rightful return of the Myanmar nationals, who were forcibly displaced from its Rakhine State,…
Bangladesh to bring diplomats from New Delhi to see Rohingya plight
The foreign ministry is taking 15 non-resident diplomats to Cox’s Bazar to see Rohingya plight as Dhaka continues to exert pressure on Myanmar to take back its nationals using diplomatic tools. The ambassadors or high commissioners are of Bosnia and…
Turkey says it will open an embassy in East Jerusalem
Noga Tarnopolsky Escalating the chorus of global condemnation of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Turkish government announced Friday it would open an embassy in East Jerusalem — in support of Palestinians. At the end of a…
Dhaka fears grave consequences of US Jerusalem recognition
Bangladesh has said that the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transfer of US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv may trigger grave consequences and threats to international peace and security. “We’re afraid that United…
Sovereignty in Europe: Integrationists and statists
by John Lloyd In most conversations and interviews on what’s broadly called populism, “Trump” and “Brexit” are bracketed. These events in the two largest Anglophone countries are taken, without the need for further discussion, to signal a turn to the…
President wants rock solid stance on Palestine
President M Abdul Hamid today said OIC must not remain as bystander on Jerusalem issue as he joined an emergency summit of the Muslim nations’ major grouping, convened to decide a coordinated response to the US recognition of the city…
India’s deafening silence over Trump Jerusalem shift
India’s two-sentence response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week elicited mixed reactions after New Delhi for decades strongly backed the Palestinian cause. The static statement to a dynamic situation was described by some as muted,…
Mental health docs warn of Trump’s increasing instability
As questions over President Donald Trump’s mental health grow, we continue our interview with Dr Bandy Lee, a forensic psychiatrist on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine and an internationally recognized expert on violence. She edited the best-selling book,…
Arab ministers demand reversal of Trump Jerusalem decision
Cairo, Dec 10 (AP/UNB) — Arab foreign ministers on Sunday demanded that the United States rescind President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, calling it a “grave” development that puts Washington on the same side as “occupation”…