Photo: BSS Japanese ambassador in Dhaka on Wednesday (August 21)
assured Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus of Tokyo’s cooperation in
rebuilding Bangladesh economy as he called on him at his Jamuna office.
Briefing
the newsmen after the meeting chief adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam
said Prof Yunus sought enhanced Japan’s assistance for rebuilding Bangladesh
economic when Ambassador Iwama Kiminori assured him that his country would stay
beside his interim government.
The
envoy acknowledged the challenges of his interim government and compared the
Bangladesh situation with post-World War 2 period in Japan.
“The
envoy said Japan is interested to work closely with the interim government of
Bangladesh . . . He congratulated Prof Yunus on his assumption as the chief
adviser to the interim government,” Alam told the briefing at the Foreign
Service Academy.
Kiminori,
the press secretary said, focused on economic cooperation, peace and
people-to-people bonding.
The
chief adviser told the envoy he considered none as foe in Bangladesh saying “we
are all brothers and sisters. No one is enemy”.
The
press secretary said the Rohigya crisis also came up during the meeting when
the chief adviser said the repatriation of the forcibly displaced people was
the only solution to the crisis.
“He
sought more Japanese humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas,” Alam said.
