bdnews24.com :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her upcoming official visit to New Zealand. Her visit, scheduled between March 11-14, would have been the first ever by a head of government between the two countries.
A senior official at the foreign ministry told bdnews24.com the prime minister cancelled the visit due to the current political situation.
The opposition BNP and its allies are enforcing a violent nationwide transport blockade and a series of shutdowns, marking the first anniversary of last year’s parliamentary elections that it had boycotted on January 5.
More than 100 people
have been killed, most of them in firebombing of public transport. International community has asked BNP to stop violence and the government to resolve the crisis.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, earlier, invited Hasina for a bilateral meeting and to watch the Bangladesh-New Zealand World Cup cricket match on Mar 13 at Hamilton.
New Zealand was one of the first of countries to recognise Bangladesh in early 1972. But the relations had never been nurtured.
Bangladesh imports milk and milk products from New Zealand, while New Zealand recently commissioned a ship to be built by a Bangladesh company.
Dhaka had plans to work out new ideas of cooperation from businesses to training and capacity building during the visit.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her upcoming official visit to New Zealand. Her visit, scheduled between March 11-14, would have been the first ever by a head of government between the two countries.
A senior official at the foreign ministry told bdnews24.com the prime minister cancelled the visit due to the current political situation.
The opposition BNP and its allies are enforcing a violent nationwide transport blockade and a series of shutdowns, marking the first anniversary of last year’s parliamentary elections that it had boycotted on January 5.
More than 100 people
have been killed, most of them in firebombing of public transport. International community has asked BNP to stop violence and the government to resolve the crisis.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, earlier, invited Hasina for a bilateral meeting and to watch the Bangladesh-New Zealand World Cup cricket match on Mar 13 at Hamilton.
New Zealand was one of the first of countries to recognise Bangladesh in early 1972. But the relations had never been nurtured.
Bangladesh imports milk and milk products from New Zealand, while New Zealand recently commissioned a ship to be built by a Bangladesh company.
Dhaka had plans to work out new ideas of cooperation from businesses to training and capacity building during the visit.
