Staff Reporter :
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will leave Dhaka for Japan for an four days official visit on May 13 at the invitation of Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Kono.
He will discuss with his Japanese counterpart about the Rohingya crisis and its early solution and other bilateral issues.
On this occasion, Taro Kono will hold a foreign ministers’ meeting followed by a dinner with minister Mahmood Ali on Monday.
Mahmood Ali will also meet Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other top level officials.
“This is going to be the third meeting between the two foreign ministers in the last eight months. So it is clear that the relation between the two countries is quite significant,” said an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The two foreign ministers held a meeting on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly in September last year. They also met in November of that year when the Japanese foreign minister visited Bangladesh to discuss the Rohingya crisis.
The foreign minister will discuss bilateral issues during his visit. Japan is going to contest a number of elections at the international level in which Tokyo is expecting support from Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has given shelter to more than 10 lakh Rohingyas, who fled Rakhine state in Myanmar last year, on humanitarian ground and now it wants a political solution to the crisis.
“Japan is a friend of Myanmar. Bangladesh wants Japan to convince Myanmar to agree to reach a political solution to the Rohingya crisis,” said another official of the Foreign Ministry.
The Prime Minister made a five-point proposal at the UN General Assembly session.
Earlier Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali said Japan agreed to construct pre-fabricated houses for Rohingyas in Rakhine.
Sources said, Japan has sought Bangladesh’s endorsement to organize World Expo 2025. It also sought Bangladesh’s support as the country expressed interest in contesting the election for non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council for 2023-24 term. Japan was a member of UN Security Council for 2016-17. Bangladesh withdrew its candidacy from the Security Council election and backed Tokyo when Japan’s Prime Minister visited Dhaka in 2014.
Japan has also expressed eagerness to build a 1,320MW power plant and a deep sea port in Matarbari, Cox’s Bazar. The discussion is underway between the two countries.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will leave Dhaka for Japan for an four days official visit on May 13 at the invitation of Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Kono.
He will discuss with his Japanese counterpart about the Rohingya crisis and its early solution and other bilateral issues.
On this occasion, Taro Kono will hold a foreign ministers’ meeting followed by a dinner with minister Mahmood Ali on Monday.
Mahmood Ali will also meet Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other top level officials.
“This is going to be the third meeting between the two foreign ministers in the last eight months. So it is clear that the relation between the two countries is quite significant,” said an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The two foreign ministers held a meeting on the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly in September last year. They also met in November of that year when the Japanese foreign minister visited Bangladesh to discuss the Rohingya crisis.
The foreign minister will discuss bilateral issues during his visit. Japan is going to contest a number of elections at the international level in which Tokyo is expecting support from Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has given shelter to more than 10 lakh Rohingyas, who fled Rakhine state in Myanmar last year, on humanitarian ground and now it wants a political solution to the crisis.
“Japan is a friend of Myanmar. Bangladesh wants Japan to convince Myanmar to agree to reach a political solution to the Rohingya crisis,” said another official of the Foreign Ministry.
The Prime Minister made a five-point proposal at the UN General Assembly session.
Earlier Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali said Japan agreed to construct pre-fabricated houses for Rohingyas in Rakhine.
Sources said, Japan has sought Bangladesh’s endorsement to organize World Expo 2025. It also sought Bangladesh’s support as the country expressed interest in contesting the election for non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council for 2023-24 term. Japan was a member of UN Security Council for 2016-17. Bangladesh withdrew its candidacy from the Security Council election and backed Tokyo when Japan’s Prime Minister visited Dhaka in 2014.
Japan has also expressed eagerness to build a 1,320MW power plant and a deep sea port in Matarbari, Cox’s Bazar. The discussion is underway between the two countries.
