US will provide all kinds of support to Bangladesh
High-level talks between Joe Biden and Prof Yunus indicates
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Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus started holding a bilateral meeting with US President Joseph R Biden on Tuesday night which started at 9.30pm (Bangladesh Time) on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). We weren't able to take the last info till this report was written at 11 pm (Bangladesh Time).
Councilor of Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the UN Fahmid Farhan said the meeting of Chief Adviser Prof Yunus and US President Biden indicates that the US administration wants to enhance diplomatic and economic relations with the Prof Yunus-led Bangladesh's interim government.
Through these talks, the US administration is sending a clear message to Bangladesh that it is keen to boost bilateral ties. Diplomatic sources said during the high level talks between Joe Biden and Prof Yunus, the two leaders are discussing in detail how diplomatic and economic relations could be enhanced in writing a new chapter in bilateral relations between Bangladesh and the United States. They are also discussing the US support in implementing the reform agendas taken by the Bangladesh interim government.
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said that he believes the Nobel Peace Laureate and a world-renowned personality like Prof Muhammad Yunus would play a positive role in leading the Bangladesh delegation and speaking for Bangladesh in the UN session. So, he said, this session is very significant for Bangladesh.
A diplomat at the Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nations said once the US President gives a speech at the UNGA session, he hosts a reception in the afternoon of that day in honor of the heads of state and government joining the session.
Holding a bilateral meeting between the US President and the top leader of any country during the UNGA session is very rare, he said. So far, the US President did not hold any meeting with any top leader of Bangladesh on the sidelines of the UNGA session, while the US president has always met and talked to the heads of state and government of Bangladesh at the reception hosted by the US President.
Besides, there was no meeting between the heads of the Bangladesh government and the US top leader at the UN General Session.
About the significance of the Biden-Yunus talks, the Bangladeshi diplomat said a US high-level delegation visited Dhaka on September 15 after the interim government took charge of the government on August 8.
Within two weeks of the visit of the US delegation, he said, US President Joe Biden is holding a meeting with Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Prof Yunus. The meeting in New York indicates that the US will provide all kinds of support to Bangladesh in the future, including reforms in various sectors after the political changeover, he added.
