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Successful Foreign Policy

Consensus among parties imperative

Dr Akbar AU Khan tells reception

Staff Correspondent
Making the country's foreign policy a success requires consensus among all political parties on core issues related to the state interests, said former adviser to a caretaker government Dr Akbar Ali Khan yesterday.
"In the US, there are core issues related to their state interest on which both the republicans and democrats put similar kinds of opinions. They call such agreement bipartisan.
"In Bangladesh, we need such bipartisan opinions from the political parties," he told a reception accorded to former state minister for information Prof Abu Sayeed, who was conferred a PhD by Rajshahi University.
Forum 71, a newly formed sociopolitical organisation, organised the reception in the capital's Jatiya Press Club.
Creating a bipartisan foreign policy requires the political parties to foresee the state interests. "Unfortunately, we are still in the dark regarding the country's interests," said Akbar.
He said one of the weakest aspects of Bangladesh's foreign policy, which was nothing but an extension of the national
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policy, was the lack of vision.
On Bangladesh-India relations, Akbar said Bangladesh's political parties were not clear on what Bangladesh required from India. "None of our political parties have a firm idea to tell them (India) what we exactly want," he said.
At present our foreign policy is in such a situation that "whatever we want, we want it inappropriately while we get what we do not want", he added.
On the upcoming parliamentary election, Akbar referred to the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating that holding
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a free and fair poll is a requirement for ensuring human rights. "We have to ensure a free and fair election at any cost".
On his PhD topic, "Independence of Bangladesh: Diplomatic War", Prof Sayeed said Bangladesh's foreign policy was "to create friends, not enemies" but now it seemed that it lacked true friends.
He also urged to make public lawmakers' assets for the sake of good governance and accountability.
Former foreign secretary and columnist Mohiuddin Ahmed also spoke at the programme.