UNB, Munich :
Welcoming the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to send a team for ‘preliminary examination’ of the atrocities on Rohingyas by Myanmar Army, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday assured them of extending all the support in this regard.
“The ICC team is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month,” Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque said while briefing reporters about the outcome of a meeting of the Prime Minister with ICC Chief prosecutor Dr Fatu Bensouda.
Shahidul Haque said, the Prime Minister and the ICC chief prosecutor discussed the issues on the trial of genocide of Pakistani Army in Bangladesh in 1971 and atrocities on Rohingya nationals of Myanmar.
Sheikh Hasina laid emphasis on bringing the perpetrators of the genocide of Pakistani Army in Bangladesh in 1971 to book.
About the trial of the atrocities on Rohingyas, the ICC chief prosecutor said ICC has already brought the Rohingya issue under its jurisdiction and established a court for trial of the perpetrators.
Fatu Bensouda said, the ICC team will visit Bangladesh to have the ‘preliminary examination’ aimed at establishing the case.
The Prime Minister also underlined the background of the killing of Bangabandhu and his family members in 1975 and informed the ICC chief prosecutor about the trial
process of the killers. Bensauda, a national of Gambia and an international lawyer, said she knows about the brutal killing of Bangabandhu and already conveyed Bangladesh Ambassador about her concern.
Dr. Bensauda requested the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to visit the ICC to speak to the judges on the issue of the trial of the 1971 genocide. She thanked Hasina for playing a pioneering role in the ICC.
Bangladesh Ambassador is playing an active role in various committees in the ICC, she said.
The ICC is a new area where Bangladesh is being involved very actively in recent times, the Foreign Secretary said.
Earlier, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Novel laureate Batrice Fihn called on Prime Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of Munich Security Conference.
Batrice Fihn thanked the Prime Minister for Bangladesh’s strong position on nuclear abolition issue and appreciated Bangladesh as the country since Bangabandhu’s era in 1974 has been making constant efforts to make South Asia a nuclear-free zone.
Shahidul Haque said, Fihn hoped that Bangladesh would take a pioneering role in abolishing nuclear weapons as two big countries in the region developed such weapons.
Batrice Fihn hailed Prime Pinister’s diplomatic efforts to bring peace and stability in the region soon after nuclear bomb tests in India and Pakistan in late nineties.
She also recalled Prime Minister’s visit to the two countries aimed at pursuing them to stop nuclear arms competition and spent the money for development and poor people.
“Bangladesh is one of the first countries signed the convention on abolition of nuclear weapons,” she said.
Batrice Fihn informed the Prime Minister that they are thinking of organising an event on abolishing nuclear weapons on the sidelines of the coming UN General Assembly and invited Prime Minister to join the programme.
Welcoming the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to send a team for ‘preliminary examination’ of the atrocities on Rohingyas by Myanmar Army, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday assured them of extending all the support in this regard.
“The ICC team is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month,” Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque said while briefing reporters about the outcome of a meeting of the Prime Minister with ICC Chief prosecutor Dr Fatu Bensouda.
Shahidul Haque said, the Prime Minister and the ICC chief prosecutor discussed the issues on the trial of genocide of Pakistani Army in Bangladesh in 1971 and atrocities on Rohingya nationals of Myanmar.
Sheikh Hasina laid emphasis on bringing the perpetrators of the genocide of Pakistani Army in Bangladesh in 1971 to book.
About the trial of the atrocities on Rohingyas, the ICC chief prosecutor said ICC has already brought the Rohingya issue under its jurisdiction and established a court for trial of the perpetrators.
Fatu Bensouda said, the ICC team will visit Bangladesh to have the ‘preliminary examination’ aimed at establishing the case.
The Prime Minister also underlined the background of the killing of Bangabandhu and his family members in 1975 and informed the ICC chief prosecutor about the trial
process of the killers. Bensauda, a national of Gambia and an international lawyer, said she knows about the brutal killing of Bangabandhu and already conveyed Bangladesh Ambassador about her concern.
Dr. Bensauda requested the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to visit the ICC to speak to the judges on the issue of the trial of the 1971 genocide. She thanked Hasina for playing a pioneering role in the ICC.
Bangladesh Ambassador is playing an active role in various committees in the ICC, she said.
The ICC is a new area where Bangladesh is being involved very actively in recent times, the Foreign Secretary said.
Earlier, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Novel laureate Batrice Fihn called on Prime Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of Munich Security Conference.
Batrice Fihn thanked the Prime Minister for Bangladesh’s strong position on nuclear abolition issue and appreciated Bangladesh as the country since Bangabandhu’s era in 1974 has been making constant efforts to make South Asia a nuclear-free zone.
Shahidul Haque said, Fihn hoped that Bangladesh would take a pioneering role in abolishing nuclear weapons as two big countries in the region developed such weapons.
Batrice Fihn hailed Prime Pinister’s diplomatic efforts to bring peace and stability in the region soon after nuclear bomb tests in India and Pakistan in late nineties.
She also recalled Prime Minister’s visit to the two countries aimed at pursuing them to stop nuclear arms competition and spent the money for development and poor people.
“Bangladesh is one of the first countries signed the convention on abolition of nuclear weapons,” she said.
Batrice Fihn informed the Prime Minister that they are thinking of organising an event on abolishing nuclear weapons on the sidelines of the coming UN General Assembly and invited Prime Minister to join the programme.
