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Bangladesh ready for business: Shahriar

UNB, Dhaka
State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam yesterday said Bangladesh will engage with the world in a bigger way for doing everything on diplomatic fronts to take the country to the next stage of development with more trade and cutting dependency on aid.
"Bangladesh is ready for business. Bangladesh is attracting investment," he said mentioning the country's engagement with Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, India and other countries on trade and investment fronts with much focus on economic diplomacy.
Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB) arranged the seminar on Bangladesh's diplomacy and engaging the world, at the auditorium of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BUSS), marking the association's 21st anniversary.
Shahriar said Bangladesh, over the last few years, witnessed visits of trade delegations tagged with each high-level bilateral visit to Bangladesh, which shows the country is ready for expanding business.
BUSS Chairman Munshi Faiz Ahmad and
former Foreign Secretary MdTouhid Hossain spoke at the seminar attended also by Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque, with DCAB President Raheed Ejaz in the chair.
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Senior Research Fellow Towfiqul Islam Khan presented a paper on "Bangladesh's Priorities in Economic Diplomacy" at the seminar conducted by DCAB General Secretary Narui Islam Hasib.
The state minister laid emphasis on capacity-building, saying Bangladesh will focus on all fronts of diplomatic engagements and every aspect of global affairs as it is moving towards becoming a developed country by 2041.
"The foreign ministry will further expedite its efforts," Shahriar said, adding that challenges will be there but those can be overcome if the intention remains good with much focus on people's wellbeing.
He said Bangladesh opened 17 missions abroad over the last 10 years while it has plans to open 10 more in the next five years.
About the Rohingya issue, the state minister said Bangladesh needs to move on
without confining it to one single issue as it has many more to deal with.
Highlighting Bangladesh's meaningful engagement with Myanmar and the world, he said Bangladesh is on the right track and no country will get any chance to criticise it over the issue.
"We've not failed," he said, adding that the entire world is with Bangladesh.
Towfiqul Islam focused on investment issues and laid emphasis on engaging the private sector and promoting joint venture.
He also talked about comprehensive economic partnership agreement and having bilateral free trade agreement.
Earlier, the state minister along with founding members of DCAB cut a cake marking the 21st anniversary of the association, and launched its official website.
DCAB honoured five founding members -Alamgir Hossain, Mostofa Kamal, Shyamal Dutta, Anis Alamgir and Aman Ud Dowla — at the programme where they shared their memories with DCAB since its inception.
The state minister handed over crests to the DCAB founding members.