PM asks envoys to enhance bilateral relations with African nations

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked Bangladeshi ambassadors stationed in African countries to enhance bilateral trade, business and investments with those nations.

“Attach importance on economic diplomacy as economy is also important alongside politics. You have to find out potentials regarding trade, business and investment in the respective countries you are working for," she told as the chief guest at the "Bangladesh Envoys Conference in Africa" at the Place of Residence, the Hotel Radission Blu Sandton here.   

The prime minister also asked the Bangladeshi envoys to work for bringing more Bangladeshi skilled manpower to African countries, taking measures to increase remittances and giving special care of the Bangladeshi peacekeepers working in the United Nations (UN) mission in the African countries as they have brightened Bangladesh’s image  globally.   

She directed the envoys to take required measures to make sure so that Bangladesh can ahead march on the world stage keeping its head high.    

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah were present on the dais, while Senior Secretary of Foreign Affairs Masud Bin Momen moderated the conference.    

Bangladesh High Commissioner in   South Africa Noor-E-Helal Saifur Rahman, Ambassador   to   Rabat, Morocco, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Ambassador  to Cairo, Egypt, Md. Monirul Islam,   High Commissioner to Port Louis, Mauritius, Rezina Ahmed,   High Commissioner  to Abuja, Nigeria, Masudur Rahman, Ambassador to Algiers Muhammad Zulqar Nain, High Commissioner to Nairobi, Kenya, Tareque Muhammad, Ambassador to  Tripoli, Libya, Major General Abul Hasnat Mohammad Khairul Bashar, and Ambassador to Khartoum, Sudan, Tareq Ahmed, were present in the  conference.

/MHK/