UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Mohammad Ziauddin has said Bangladesh is deeply engaged with the USA and other friendly countries to counter terrorism to ensure democracy and development.
The envoy made the remark when he met with Republican Senator Ron Johnson in Washington DC on Tuesday.
They discussed wide range of issues including bilateral trade and economic cooperation, according to a message received here from Washington on Wednesday.
Senator Johnson of Wisconsin is a member on the US Senate Committees on Budget, Foreign Relations and Commerce, Science and Transportation.
This was Ambassador Ziauddin’s second meeting with the ruling Republican Party Senator within a week.
On January 24 he met with Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker and pressed
for duty free trade facility for Bangladeshi products in the US market.
On Tuesday the Ambassador briefed Senator Johnson on Bangladesh’s growing economy as well as development activities under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
He recalled the brutal past of the Prime Minister and her family including the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, and her own struggle to materialize her father’s dream of a ‘Golden Bengal’. The Ambassador said due to her own traumatic experience, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is determined to weed out all kinds of extremism and terrorism in Bangladesh and beyond.
On women empowerment, he said more than four million workers of Bangladesh’s apparel industry are women who are immensely contributing to society by poverty alleviation and containing the menace of extremism.
Responding to a query from the Senator, the Ambassador said the economic growth rate of Bangladesh last year was recorded 7%, which has been estimated 7.5% for this year.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Mohammad Ziauddin has said Bangladesh is deeply engaged with the USA and other friendly countries to counter terrorism to ensure democracy and development.
The envoy made the remark when he met with Republican Senator Ron Johnson in Washington DC on Tuesday.
They discussed wide range of issues including bilateral trade and economic cooperation, according to a message received here from Washington on Wednesday.
Senator Johnson of Wisconsin is a member on the US Senate Committees on Budget, Foreign Relations and Commerce, Science and Transportation.
This was Ambassador Ziauddin’s second meeting with the ruling Republican Party Senator within a week.
On January 24 he met with Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker and pressed
for duty free trade facility for Bangladeshi products in the US market.
On Tuesday the Ambassador briefed Senator Johnson on Bangladesh’s growing economy as well as development activities under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
He recalled the brutal past of the Prime Minister and her family including the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, and her own struggle to materialize her father’s dream of a ‘Golden Bengal’. The Ambassador said due to her own traumatic experience, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is determined to weed out all kinds of extremism and terrorism in Bangladesh and beyond.
On women empowerment, he said more than four million workers of Bangladesh’s apparel industry are women who are immensely contributing to society by poverty alleviation and containing the menace of extremism.
Responding to a query from the Senator, the Ambassador said the economic growth rate of Bangladesh last year was recorded 7%, which has been estimated 7.5% for this year.
