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Diplomats, donors call for dialogue

Hasan Jahid Tusher
A group of foreign diplomats and representatives of some donor agencies yesterday called for a dialogue to break the political impasse and end the ongoing violence.
They also expressed grave concern over the loss of lives in the blockade being enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance since January 6.
At a dinner with
members of the parliamentary standing committee on the law ministry last night, the diplomats and donor representatives wanted to know about a possible way out of the crisis.
They then suggested that talks can be a solution, Awami League lawmaker Abdul Matin Khasru, who was present at the dinner, told The Daily Star over the phone.
"We told them that dialogue was a continuous process in democracy and at first they |BNP-Jamaat] must stop committing violence,” he said.
European Union's Head of Delegation Pierre Mayaudon organised the dinner at his residence in the capital.
The diplomats and donor representatives also expressed concern over the draft of Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Act- 2014 which was approved by the cabinet in June last year.
And they also seek to know about the government motive behind formulating such an act which they said had
been criticised by rights bodies and non-government organisations home and abroad, said Khasru.
According to the act, no NGO will be allowed to receive foreign donations for any project without prior permission from the NGO Affairs Bureau.
The AL lawmaker said the diplomats and donor representatives were told that the act was yet to get the cabinet's final approval.
Chairman of standing committee on the law ministry Suranjit Sengupta, Law Minister Anisul Huq, Lawmakers Shamsul Haque Tuku, Abdul Majid Khan and Tajul Islam Chowdhury, who is also the main opposition chief whip, were among the participants in the dinner.
High Commissioners to Canada Benoit-Pierre Laramee and Australian High Commissioner Greg Wilcock, and representatives from the Department for International Development and United States Agency for International Development were also present.