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The same comments apply to India as well.

Many in Indian media are saying that the ouster of Hasina was a US plot.

Modi thinking that he was so important that he can meddle in Bangladesh, has been proven quite wrong now.

Next on US agenda is independence of Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur if not all seven sisters. Without any approval of India, I might add.

Americans throw India a few favors in terms of Backoffice business and Indian politicians start thinking they matter in geopolitics. A fool's errand.

That is very true. Even Jayshankar said that Partner is not the terminology we use when he was asked the question on India buying oil from Russia and its impact on US India partnership. So I agree with you that we are not partner of US. BD may try that and see the result. Each and every country who has a passion of becoming partner with US has ended up being satellite state of US. An another partner of US, Pakistan did not get atta when it was in food crisis from its partner US. On other hand we rescued Srilanka when they were in crisis by giving them 4 Bn USD. Giving them fertilizer when its time tested friend China supply them with fertilizer with harmful chemicals. We gave 2 million dosages of corona vaccine to BD totally free.

After facing harsh realities of spoiling relation with India, there has been a change of heart in many Pakistanis. What you unwilling to learn in peaceful way, nature will teach the same in harsh way. Wait for that. I fore see BD guys remembering and praising Hasina and the progress under her regime in couple of years.
 
We gave 2 million dosages of corona vaccine to BD totally free.
India didn't even supply BD the corona vaccine timely for which they were paid for. BD paid India in advance to get the corona vaccine at the soonest. But India delayed the supply of the vaccine to put BD at a precarious position. Giving BD 2 million dosages of corona vaccine for free is your figment of imagination. But Maldives provided BD with 2 hundred thousand dosages of corona vaccine for free. Long live BD Maldives friendship.(y)
 
India didn't even supply BD the corona vaccine timely for which they were paid for. BD paid India in advance to get the corona vaccine at the soonest. But India delayed the supply of the vaccine to put BD at a precarious position. Giving BD 2 million dosages of corona vaccine for free is your figment of imagination. But Maldives provided BD with 2 hundred thousand dosages of corona vaccine for free. Long live BD Maldives friendship.(y)

We provided 2 million dosage of vaccine free to BD. When epidemic exploded in horrible way, we could not provide our people with vaccine in time inspite of 10 million dosage production per day but ultimately we provided BD with vaccine.

Anyway, why did you not buy same from other country?
 
Because Hasina--the Indian whore was hell bent on buying vaccines from India. She wanted to give business to an Indian company.

Our vaccine was in high demand and even developed countries like Canada was in queue to buy it. Trump requested to supply supply certain medicines to US. We obliged BD by giving vaccine free and subsequently on priority basis. Even Pakistan had tried to put ban on import of medicine from India but had to change the decision in a week. I dare BD to put a ban on medicine port from India for atleast one month. This is my open challange.
 
We provided 2 million dosage of vaccine free to BD. When epidemic exploded in horrible way, we could not provide our people with vaccine in time inspite of 10 million dosage production per day but ultimately we provided BD with vaccine.

Anyway, why did you not buy same from other country?

Please provide proof of claims in all cases. Just saying something does not make it true.
 
Our vaccine was in high demand and even developed countries like Canada was in queue to buy it. Trump requested to supply supply certain medicines to US. We obliged BD by giving vaccine free and subsequently on priority basis. Even Pakistan had tried to put ban on import of medicine from India but had to change the decision in a week. I dare BD to put a ban on medicine port from India for atleast one month. This is my open challange.

Please provide proof of claims. This forum will always insist on clarity and truth. Unverified claims will always be scrutinized and deleted if proven.

This forum will not be used as a platform for propaganda from any specific country.

I know you are consuming Godi Media propaganda about Bangladesh' dependency on India for food, drugs, electricity etc., but Bangladesh meets nearly 98 percent of its domestic demand for pharmaceutical products, with a market size of approximately $3 billion.


Ditto for electricity. We have installed capacity for 25000 megawatts, which is twice our demand.

Adani's deal with Hasina was fraudulent, we did not need Adani's electricity.

You can be assured that we will gradually stop importing food items from India as well. Unless Modi and company starts petitioning, which they always do.
 
That is very true. Even Jayshankar said that Partner is not the terminology we use when he was asked the question on India buying oil from Russia and its impact on US India partnership. So I agree with you that we are not partner of US. BD may try that and see the result. Each and every country who has a passion of becoming partner with US has ended up being satellite state of US. An another partner of US, Pakistan did not get atta when it was in food crisis from its partner US. On other hand we rescued Srilanka when they were in crisis by giving them 4 Bn USD. Giving them fertilizer when its time tested friend China supply them with fertilizer with harmful chemicals. We gave 2 million dosages of corona vaccine to BD totally free.

After facing harsh realities of spoiling relation with India, there has been a change of heart in many Pakistanis. What you unwilling to learn in peaceful way, nature will teach the same in harsh way. Wait for that. I fore see BD guys remembering and praising Hasina and the progress under her regime in couple of years.

Hasina will not be back unfortunately.
 
Please provide proof of claims. This forum will always insist on clarity and truth. Unverified claims will always be scrutinized and deleted if proven.

This forum will not be used as a platform for propaganda from any specific country.

I know you are consuming Godi Media propaganda about Bangladesh' dependency on India for food, drugs, electricity etc., but Bangladesh meets nearly 98 percent of its domestic demand for pharmaceutical products, with a market size of approximately $3 billion.


Ditto for electricity. We have installed capacity for 25000 megawatts, which is twice our demand.

Adani's deal with Hasina was fraudulent, we did not need Adani's electricity.

You can be assured that we will gradually stop importing food items from India as well. Unless Modi and company starts petitioning, which they always do.
Your problem is that you need references for things which very much in main stream media and known to every one. Here are the references.





Whole internet is full of these references. Had you been little informed, I may not have to waste my time to search references. If you are ill informed, I can not waste my time in providing references for each and every point I argue which is very much in main stream.
 
Our vaccine was in high demand and even developed countries like Canada was in queue to buy it. Trump requested to supply supply certain medicines to US. We obliged BD by giving vaccine free and subsequently on priority basis. Even Pakistan had tried to put ban on import of medicine from India but had to change the decision in a week. I dare BD to put a ban on medicine port from India for atleast one month. This is my open challange.
First of all, it was not your vaccine. AstraZeneca, a British company, gave you the formula for the vaccine for free. 2nd of all, you did not give free vaccine to Bangladesh. We bought it with cash. Third of all, we do not import medicine from India. Our own domestic pharmaceutical industry is big enough to meet the local demand. We even export medicines to the US and European markets.
 
First of all, it was not your vaccine. AstraZeneca, a British company, gave you the formula for the vaccine for free. 2nd of all, you did not give free vaccine to Bangladesh. We bought it with cash. Third of all, we do not import medicine from India. Our own domestic pharmaceutical industry is big enough to meet the local demand. We even export medicines to the US and European markets.

. Initial 1.2 million dosages were given free. References are already given if you are willing to look at it
 

US delegation visit: A new chapter in Bangladesh-US relations?

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US delegates hold a talk with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka on September 15, 2024. FILE PHOTO: COLLECTED

As expected, the recent visit to Dhaka by the US delegation led by Brent Neiman, assistant secretary for international finance at the US Department of Treasury, accompanied by Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu, and USAID and trade officials, was the subject of much speculation by all and sundry here, both prior to their arrival and since their departure.

The symbolic value of the visit and its timing cannot be overemphasised, this being the first such visit from any country since the change of guards in Dhaka on August 5—that, too, from Washington. Added to this is the fact that Donald Lu, a key figure in Bangladesh-US relations, landed in Dhaka after spending four days in Delhi attending the 2+2 dialogue, a regular event in the framework of Indo-US bilateral strategic relations, in which the confluences outweigh the divergences—or more appropriately, the diversions.

Official comments from both sides following the meetings between the US delegation and Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur, and the foreign secretary focused, among other things, on an "expression of strong commitment [from the US] to work with the interim government." The US embassy in Dhaka posted on its Facebook page, "Our delegation met Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, affirming our dedication to fostering inclusive economic growth, institution building, and development to benefit the people of Bangladesh. As Bangladesh looks to chart a more equitable and inclusive future, the US stands ready to support those efforts."

On the face of it, the emphasis was on Washington's readiness to provide economic, technical and financial support for reforms in areas such as the banking sector, which has been weakened as a primary vehicle for large-scale corruption and money laundering over the last decade and a half. The signing of an agreement under which the US would provide $200 million to Bangladesh as development support was possibly the first step in this journey.

For his part, Prof Yunus highlighted his administration's goals to quickly "reset, reform and restart" the economy, initiate financial sector reforms, and strengthen institutions. He then spelt out the steps taken so far in this pursuit, including the formation of six separate commissions to address reforms in key areas and state institutions, the most important of which was amending, or refixing, the country's constitution. The US delegation, in response, praised the chief adviser's leadership and expressed Washington's willingness to support his reform agenda.

In remarks to the media, Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin noted that the US side also brought up the recent developments in Myanmar and humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya in Bangladesh. He said, "We spoke about eliminating the root causes of the Rohingya crisis." The significance of talking of the "recent developments in Myanmar" and linking that to "eliminating the root causes of the Rohingya crisis" cannot be lost, because implicit in this is a possible assessment of the role of military junta in Myanmar. Were they alluding to a regime change in Myanmar to facilitate the return of the Rohingya? One can only speculate.

In reviewing the public language from the US delegation, three words that should stand out are "support," "equitable," and "inclusive." It appears that Washington is focused on helping Prof Yunus and his team advance a process of political, social, and economic reforms, emphasising that sustainable and durable economic development is best achieved in a truly democratic environment—one that involves all segments of society. To achieve that, setting an arbitrary time frame for the interim government's tenure may not be the best path forward.

This aligns with comments made by US deputy secretary of state for management and resources, Richard Verma, at the Hudson Institute in Washington, where he said, "It is in everyone's interest to support a democratic, peaceful, and lawful transition in Bangladesh," adding that "the timing of fresh elections and the duration of the interim government is for the people of Bangladesh to decide." Verma's remarks should be viewed within the broader context of the US position on the dramatically changed situation in Bangladesh.

It is perhaps necessary to try and discern, if at all possible, what the hard political content of the discussions with the chief adviser was and what, if anything, was discussed in Delhi regarding the current situation in Bangladesh. Understandably, there were no public statements by either side on this. The US delegates' meeting with the chief adviser lasted at least an hour, and it is reasonable to assume that this time was not solely spent discussing the reform process, which is already publicly known.

Further inquiry should focus on the political talking points, as well as the immediate, mid-term and long-term implications for Bangladesh on the broader geopolitical stage, especially given Washington's visible support for the interim government in Dhaka. In the prevailing global political climate, relations between states, large and small, do not remain confined to the bilateral frame only—they spread wider into the region and beyond. Similar visits, therefore, from others including Washington's allies before the year is over cannot be ruled out. It will also be of great interest to watch what transpires at the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Prof Yunus on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this month in New York, assuming such a meeting takes place.

Observers believe the visit signals a retooling of Bangladesh-US relations, which have been noticeably strained in recent times. The imposition of sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and some of its officials by the US Department of Treasury, along with a visa restriction policy affecting certain officials, did not go down well in Dhaka. At the same time, repeated public references by the former prime minister to the US seeking a military base in St Martin's Island in exchange for Washington's support were cases in point. Washington's open criticism of the non-participatory and severely flawed national elections, particularly in 2018 and 2024, further strained the relationship.

Shamsher M Chowdhury, Bir Bikram is a former foreign secretary of Bangladesh.​
 

Yunus, USAID administrator discuss diverse areas to deepen cooperation
UN Human Rights chief lauds interim government’s reform initiatives

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Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has discussed diverse areas to deepen cooperation between Bangladesh and the USA with USAID Administrator Samantha Power.

They specifically discussed cooperation in the areas of transport, energy, justice and youth.

The meeting was held yesterday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

On Tuesday, the United States announced nearly $199 million in additional humanitarian assistance to address the needs of Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh and the region, including over $129 million through USAID and nearly $70 million from the US Department of State.

US Department of State Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya announced the funding at a Rohingya-focused event during the UN General Assembly High-level week.

USAID's assistance includes funding from the bipartisan National Security Supplemental as well as $78 million from the US Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation, which will help to purchase, ship, and distribute approximately 52,200 metric tonnes of food commodities from American farmers to approximately 610,000 refugees experiencing acute food insecurity in Bangladesh.

It will also support the International Rescue Committee, Unicef, and the UN World Food Program to provide food, nutrition, and protection assistance to Rohingya refugees and host communities.

The US government has provided more than $2.5 billion for the regional Rohingya response since August 2017, including more than $2.1 billion in Bangladesh.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk also met Prof Yunus on Wednesday.

They discussed areas of work of mutual interest in Bangladesh towards securing justice, freedom, and human rights.

Turk lauded the interim government's continuing reform initiatives.​
 

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