Bangladesh has formally become party to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, joining the global efforts to protect human health and environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds

Chinese Special Envoy Deng Xijun had a meeting with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Rohingya repatriation on April 6, two days before the latter flew to Washington to hold a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The European Union has told the government that it is ready to send election observers if the next parliamentary polls are participatory.

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen yesterday left for Beijing on a two-day visit, a diplomatic source told The Daily Star.

European Union Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley had a meeting with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today and discussed the proposed deployment of an EU Election Observation Mission in Bangladesh ahead of the next election

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Iranian President Dr Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi to take efforts to ensure that Iranian women could live with dignity and honour with equal opportunity for education and work with their male counterparts.

Bangladesh and Russia have agreed to use yuan to settle payment for a nuclear plant Moscow is building in the South Asian country, a Bangladesh government official said on Monday

Bangladesh has questioned Malaysia’s transparency in the approval process for recruiting Bangladeshi and other foreign workers as researchers and the media are increasingly exposing their exploitation and defrauding in the Southeast Asian country.

Bangladesh has stressed the need for strengthening the G-77 forum under the current presidency of Cuba and for coming up with a strong statement against interference in the internal affairs of other countries at the upcoming G-77 Summit

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Romania is "a bit displeased" as not even 10 percent of Bangladeshis who recently went to Romania with jobs did not continue their stay in the southeastern European country.

Momen tells BNP

A three-member delegation of BNP held a meeting with the US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas today

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the United States does not want a caretaker government but wants free and fair elections in the country in accordance with the existing laws.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has welcomed US International Republican Institute’s interest in observing the next general election, said Seheli Sabrin, the ministry spokesperson, at the weekly media briefing yesterday.

Although progress has been made in the garment sector for the RMG workers’ betterment following the Rana Plaza tragedy, it is nowhere enough, US Ambassador Peter Haas has said.

The foreign ministry today said criticism of the US by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy will not impact the bilateral relations between the two countries.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today said that the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working to take Bangladesh-India connectivity to the pre-1965 level for shared prosperity of the region..The state minister said this during a meeting in Agartala with Chie

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma yesterday underlined the "deep bonds of friendship and cooperation" between Bangladesh and India; and reaffirmed commitment to further enrich the "special and multifaceted" ties, which are rooted in shared sacrifices of 1971

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday expressed concerns about intimidation of the media and civil society through different means, including the Digital Security Act, in Bangladesh.

Blinken tells Momen at Washington meet