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Hasina for Asian anti-terror body

Speaks at Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace in Manila

UNB, Dhaka
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina yesterday proposed establishment of an Asian anti-terrorist agency to effectively investigate terrorist acts in the region.
"A cause of terrorism has been a c k n o w l e d g e d a s p o v-erty...whatever may be the cause, terrorism must be completely eliminated as it results in senseless deaths and disabilities, mostly of innocents," she said.
Delivering her speech at the meeting of Senior Advisory Council of Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP) at Hotel Manila, she said her proposed agency could undertake effective investigations into terrorist acts in Asian countries, including cross-border terrorism, determine their causes and suggest guidelines for permanent solutions.
Hasina said Bangladesh suffers from two types of terrorism -- one politically sponsored to eliminate political rivals like the recent killing of her party's two prominent MPs, Ahsanullah Master and Shah AMS FROM PAGE 1
Kibria, and another planned by religious bigots, targeting secular symbols in the country, according to a message received here.
The opposition leader said an early national election is the answer to tackling this situation in Bangladesh. "However, what if the ruling regime plans to manipulate the election by placing chosen people in important supervisory positions? And, that too, despite a caretaker or interim government, and an election commission, both of which are meant to be neutral andimpartial."
Hasina said arrangement has also been made to appoint an official politically inclined to the ruling party as the chief election commissioner.
"Since it's our internal crisis, all 14 parties in the opposition are making preparations to resolve the crisis," she told the meeting.
The opposition leader said an Asian election support institute, if established, could with the active cooperation of the APA, equipped with Asian political experience, contribute effectively to conducting free and fair elections in Asian countries faced with such a crisis and averting political disasters.
On natural disaster, she said Asia has often been confronted with natural calamities and there has never been dearth of assistance from allover the world.
Hasina proposed for establishing an Asian relief and rehabilitation
fund to channel such assistance swiftly and effectively with permanent available financial and material resources.
"The fund could receive, collect and disburse aid and assistance in coordination with governments of the affected countries," she noted.
On illegal migration and unscrupulous business of women and child trafficking, she said an established Asian institute of migration (AIM) could, in coordination with the existing UN Agency for Refugees, deal with the displaced people in a planned manner.
Jose de Venicia Jr, speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines General Assembly, chaired the meeting.
Chowdhury Amir Hossain, speaker of Pakistan National Assembly, Samdech Krom Preah Norodom Rananriddh, president, National Assembly of Cambodia, Rene Vender Linden, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar of Bangladesh Parliament and Alhaj Syed Abul Hossain MP also spoke at the meeting.