Bangladesh and Luxembourg today agreed to explore new opportunities to further widen and deepen the existing bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

Genocide Watch, a US-based organisation, has formally recognised the crimes committed by the Pakistani military forces against the people of Bangladesh in 1971 as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Bangladesh will hold its first ever defence dialogue with the UK in March this year as the two countries seek to take the bilateral relationship to a strategic level for the shared objectives of prosperity and security.

Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto has expressed his optimism to further strengthen cooperation with Bangladesh.

US Congressman Gregory W Meeks yesterday said he believes sanctions can be most useful when they are targeted but wholesale sanctions on Bangladesh are currently not warranted.

“The United Kingdom has stood by Bangladesh for the past 50 years through good times and bad times and will continue to remain its trusted friend and partner also in the next 50 years”, said UK FCDO Minister for South and Central Asia Lord Ahmad.

Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal today said India-Bangladesh friendship is reaching new heights under Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Sheikh Hasina and the friendship between the two countries has evolved into a strategic partnership with multifaceted and deep collaboration in trade, investment, food security and technology.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said the objective of the ongoing propaganda against Bangladesh is to take advantage through putting pressure.

US Congressman Gregory W Meeks has said he looks forward to working to help address human rights and democracy challenges in Bangladesh, including ensuring that the country’s next elections are free and fair.

UK High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson said Bangladesh has become a role model of positive transformation, while continuing to tackle political and governance challenges as a vibrant, independent nation.

Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Ann Linde has appreciated Bangladesh’s “remarkable development journey” over the last five decades and expressed her country’s willingness to strengthen the bilateral relations.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon Austria to make larger investment in Bangladesh.

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson has said the world, today, looks with admiration at what Bangladesh has achieved in its first half century.

British High Commissioner on Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson today said the United Kingdom looks forward to strengthening bonds of kinship and culture with Bangladesh in the next 50 years and beyond.

There is no possibility of expansion of the US sanctions against Rab either in the US or elsewhere, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam yesterday.

Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi and India’s Tripura state Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb jointly laid the foundation stone of the Kamalpur-Kurmaghat border haat today.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today said there is no possibility that US sanctions would be expanded beyond the existing individuals in Bangladesh, noting that it will not have any impact on other areas.  

Ambassador Rabab Fatima, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected as the chair of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).

UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Tom Andrews has made an urgent call to the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on the Myanmar military and significantly increase financial pressure.

US Congressman and Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Gregory W Meeks will visit Bangladesh this year to observe the human rights situation and other issues.