America cares for BD: Biswal
Saturday, 28 March 2015
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal has said the United States cares for Bangladesh mentioning that Bangladesh-US relations are larger and stronger than ever, reports UNB.
Biswal recalled Senator Kennedy's message he delivered in Dhaka in February, 1972 immediately after the independence, "I've come here to say that America cares."
Today, 44 years since independence of Bangladesh, she said, the message remains the same: 'America cares.'
The US Assistant Secretary was addressing the Independence Day reception as a guest of honour Thursday evening at the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC amid patriotic zeal and enthusiasm, according to a message received here Friday.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Mohammad Ziauddin, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, a good number of foreign diplomats, several former US Ambassadors to Bangladesh, State Department officials and high military officials attended the reception.
Besides, representatives of the civil society, senior journalists, artists, Awami League leaders of the US chapter and a number of Bangladesh Diaspora turned up to the function held at the Chancery's Bangabandhu auditorium.