Salman: Economic diplomacy to keep with major global players
Image collected
Bangladesh, US hold first ever high-level monetary partnership consultation
Prime Minister's Adviser for Private Industry and Investment Salman F Rahman on Wednesday said Bangladesh would continue steadily to pursue financial diplomacy proactively with neighbouring, regional and global players.
He welcomed the US interest and involvement in the prevailing and new initiatives.
Adviser Rahman made the remarks at the first-ever high-level economic partnership consultation between Bangladesh and america held at a virtual platform with a view to creating a vision for advancing the existing US-Bangladesh Economic Partnership.
Salman F Rahman and US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the surroundings Keith Krach co-chaired the meeting.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, Bangladesh Ambassador to the united states, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister and senior officials from relevant ministries and departments of both the countries also attended the meeting.
During the meeting, both the co-chairs and the participants shared their applying for grants developing a vision to advance the bilateral financial partnership between your two friendly countries in every potential areas.
They emphasised the necessity for close cooperation between your governments and industries to handle the evolving challenges linked to health and economy during the current and post-Covid-19 global pandemic situation, said a media release.
Several important issues like investment, public health cooperation, sound digital policy, blue economy, agriculture capacity building, energy, transportation and infrastructure were discussed during this high-level consultations focusing how to further enhance the overall monetary partnership between Bangladesh and america.
Adviser Rahman thankfully mentioned that the united states is Bangladesh’s single most significant export destination country as well as the largest investor in the united states.
Under Secretary Krach appreciated Bangladesh government’s initiatives to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
The co-chairs expressed their optimism that the united states companies would take good thing about the competitiveness of Bangladesh and spend money on the country in a much greater volume, particularly in the regions of ICT, energy, and pharmaceuticals.
Both sides noted with great appreciation the wonderful cooperation through the Covid-19 pandemic between your two countries and highlighted the way to obtain world-class PPE by Bangladesh to america in the shortest possible time.
An Air Transport Agreement between the governments of america of America and Bangladesh was signed through the consultation with a desire to continue positive engagement between your US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).
The co-chairs concluded the meeting by emphasising the value of regular engagement between your two Governments at the political and bureaucratic levels.
Source: https://www.dhakatribune.com
Previous Story
- US-Bangladesh Economic Growth meeting on Wednesday
- USA straight down 31.78% in cotton trouser import...
- Google to block search recommendations to avoid misinformation...
- Two plenty of Bangladesh origin drugs recalled in...
- USA keeps India on ‘do not travel’ advisory...
- RMG export to US drops by 18.54pc in...
- Bangladeshi youth praised by Americans for creating 60...
- US investors urged to create Covid-19 vaccine plants...