Dutch minister in city
Minister for Development Cooperation Jan P Pronk of the Netherlands arrived in the city yesterday on an eight-day visit, reports UNB.
"The main objective of the visit is to determine future course of cooperation of his country to Bangladesh development programmes, Pronk told newsmen at Zia International Airport.
The Netherlands, one of the important donors to Bangladesh, has been providing financial assistance to its various welfare sectors including health, rural development, poverty alleviation, flood protection, river training and water resources.
Describing his trip as a "working visit", the Dutch Minister said he would discuss with the Bangladesh leaders expansion of trade and other important development activities which are receiving his country's aid on priority basis.
Pronk went on saying that he would seize the opportunity to take up issues of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) since Bangladesh is the coordinator of those nations.
Finance Minister Shah A M S Kibria, who received the Dutch Minister at the airport, described him as a "great friend of developing countries, particularly of the LDCs."Pronk earlier visited Bangladesh in 1991.
Replying to a question on possibility of Dutch investment in Bangladesh, the minister said the government of the two countries could make a link in this respect.
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