Visiting Danish Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation Mogens Jensen met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday night. The nearly-35 minute meeting that began around 8:15pm was held at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office where she has been staying since January 3. However, there was no briefing from either side about the meeting. Contacted, Khaleda’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan said the Danish minister disused with the BNP chief various issues relating to trade and business, the mutual interests of the two countries and current political situation in Bangladesh. BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan and BNP chairperson’s adviser Abdul Quayum were present at the meeting, he added. Mogens Jensen arrived here on Tuesday on a three-day visit. –UNB, Dhaka.
