Bangladesh to seek US financial support

Bangladesh is likely to seek financial assistance from the US during talks with a US delegation scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on September 15, said Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain on Tuesday.
US Assistant Secretary of State, Donald Lu will lead the delegation which includes Brent Neiman, acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Finance and Development at the United States Department of the Treasury.
The delegation will call on the chief adviser and have meetings with the finance adviser and the foreign adviser.
"We will surely seek assistance from the USA but I can't tell what form of that assistance will be," the adviser told the reporters replying to a question.
Responding to a question the foreign adviser dismissed the idea that US want to use the St Martin Island as a base.
He also said that issue related to the sanctions against RAB and visa sanction will not be on agenda.
'I don't think visa sanctions will affect our bilateral ties as it's their own policy and it's only effective for selected persons not all', he noted.
Responding to another question he said that he was not aware why India did not resume full operations of its visa centres in Bangladesh.
Only they can tell it, he said adding that like Bangladesh India also has business interests in the country.
Replying to a question he said that recently around 8000 Rohingya intruded into Bangladesh in the face of brutal attack against them.
We are sensitive to the humanitarian issue, but, for now our policy is not to allow such intrusion as we have not the ability to provide shelters to anymore Rohingya, he said.

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