{"id":76601,"date":"2022-03-20T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=76601"},"modified":"2022-03-20T13:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:28:26","slug":"dhaka-keen-to-build-comprehensive-partnership-with-washington-fs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=76601","title":{"rendered":"Dhaka keen to build comprehensive partnership with Washington: FS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dhaka:<\/strong> Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh has high expectations from the Biden Administration in terms of building a \u201ccomprehensive partnership\u201d as the two countries want to do more to take the relations to the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what we\u2019ve told our US colleagues today. Bangladesh will remain keen in this regard, with a view to working closely with the US in our journey together towards peace and prosperity,\u201d he told reporters at a joint briefing at state guesthouse Padma after the 8th Partnership Dialogue between the two countries.<\/p>\n

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US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who led the US side, said they have already a \u201cvery strong\u201d 50 years of partnership and the two countries can do even more together.<\/p>\n

She said they can do more in the area of growing business and trade, in terms of technology infrastructure, resilience of two economies, in the area of security.<\/p>\n

Nuland said they are really pleased to be back in town to \u201cenergize and deepen\u201d their already very strong partnership and termed Sunday\u2019s discussion just the \u201cappetizer\u201d on a \u201cvery big feast\u201d that we are going to have this year with a number of engagements.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Masud said this year\u2019s Partnership Dialogue is especially significant for two reasons – firstly, the two countries will be soon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n

And secondly, he said, the COVID-19 pandemic barred them from holding the regular dialogue mechanisms in the last two years.<\/p>\n

The foreign secretary said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen will be holding a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 4 in Washington.<\/p>\n

He said this Partnership Dialogue is indeed the first one with the Biden Administration, and also the first among a series of dialogues scheduled in coming months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThus, Bangladesh is considering today\u2019s discussion as the beginning of a rejuvenated robust engagement with our US friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The two countries are planning to have high level economic dialogue, security dialogue, separate defense dialogue apart from other engagements.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the two sides held \u201cfruitful\u201d discussion on the whole gamut of the bilateral relations between the two countries, encompassing political, economic and security domains.<\/p>\n

Masud said Bangladesh deeply values its multifaceted relations with the United States, which is based on shared liberal values of upholding democracy and human dignity, commitment towards maintaining international peace and security and aspiration for socio-economic development of people.<\/p>\n

The two countries also discussed the areas of \u201cexcellent mutual cooperation\u201d like the Rohingya issue, COVID-19 vaccine support, US development assistance, capacity building in the security sector.<\/p>\n

They also exchanged views on areas of yet untapped potentials like exchange of high-level visits, investment, trade facilitation, connectivity, stronger defence and security cooperation.<\/p>\n

The FS said they exchanged views on Indo-Pacific Strategy, and also shared Bangladesh\u2019s perspectives on national, regional and global security and geo-political scenario.<\/p>\n

The Bangladesh side expressed its willingness to cooperate with each other in UN Peacekeeping operations, and expressed willingness to continue bilateral collaboration in security and defense domains.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an area on which we would have further detailed discussion in the upcoming security and defense dialogues,\u201d said the Foreign Secretary.<\/p>\n

In the area of economic cooperation including trade and investment, he said, we look forward to having further discourse in the upcoming high-level economic partnership consultation in early June and possible next round of TICFA this year.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question on the Ukraine issue, Nuland said this is a moment for all free nations and all free people to stand together with the people of Ukraine and say this war must end. \u201cWe had a rich conversation about that. We know what kind of society we are trying to build.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka: Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Sunday said Bangladesh has high expectations from the Biden Administration in terms of building a \u201ccomprehensive partnership\u201d as the two countries want to do more to take the relations to the next level. \u201cThis is what we\u2019ve told our US colleagues today. Bangladesh will remain keen in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":76602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n