Dhaka seeks UN help, expects FBI, Scotland Yard teams to arrive soon
Friday, 6 March 2009
Bangladesh has formally sought United Nations assistance for investigation into the last week's massacre of army officers at BDR headquarters while it expects that the US FBI and British Scotland Yard teams would reach Dhaka "soon", reports BSS.
"We have made the request (to UN) through our permanent mission in New York and wanted to know how and to what extent the global body could come up with their assistance," Foreign Secretary M Touhid Hossain told reporters Thursday.
Asked about the development of the United States and British response to Dhaka's earlier request for assistance for the probe, the foreign secretary said US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British Scotland Yard teams are expected in Dhaka "soon" to supplement Bangladesh's own investigations.
"They would reach Dhaka as early as possible," Hossain said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier told Parliament that the government had sought the FBI help and would seek the UN and British assistance to unearth the plot of the BDR rebellion and bring the "killers and their patrons" to justice.
US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher talked to the Prime Minister on behalf of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to reiterate Washington's support for her new government and offered its assistance soon after the massacre.
London also earlier expressed its support for the government while British Foreign Minister David Miliband Wednesday night called Hasina and promised all possible cooperation in carrying out the investigations.
"We have made the request (to UN) through our permanent mission in New York and wanted to know how and to what extent the global body could come up with their assistance," Foreign Secretary M Touhid Hossain told reporters Thursday.
Asked about the development of the United States and British response to Dhaka's earlier request for assistance for the probe, the foreign secretary said US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and British Scotland Yard teams are expected in Dhaka "soon" to supplement Bangladesh's own investigations.
"They would reach Dhaka as early as possible," Hossain said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina earlier told Parliament that the government had sought the FBI help and would seek the UN and British assistance to unearth the plot of the BDR rebellion and bring the "killers and their patrons" to justice.
US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher talked to the Prime Minister on behalf of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to reiterate Washington's support for her new government and offered its assistance soon after the massacre.
London also earlier expressed its support for the government while British Foreign Minister David Miliband Wednesday night called Hasina and promised all possible cooperation in carrying out the investigations.